History books

Norwegens Saga beginnt im Nebel der Fjorde, wo Ingólfur Arnarson um 874 Würfel warf, um Reykjavik zu gründen - nein,...  Read More >>

Greenland didn't wait for maps-Norse exiles like Erik the Red washed up around 985, their longships nosing into...  Read More >>

Israel's roots dig into Bronze Age dust where Canaanite traders haggled over figs and frankincense, Hebrew shepherds...  Read More >>

Europe's ""enlightened"" eras hid fangs sharper than any guillotine: Black Death's 1348 rampage stacking bodies...  Read More >>

The war's marquee matches get the marble memorials, but dig into the ditches and you'll find the real rot: Peleliu's...  Read More >>

YouTube hatched in 2005 when Steve, Chad, and Jawed tossed up a simple video-sharing hack over pizza, frustrated...  Read More >>

Antarctica didn't beckon with maps-it lurked as a smudge on southern charts, Bellingshausen's 1820 sails brushing...  Read More >>

Byzantium kicked off in the shadow of Rome's corpse, Constantine slapping his cross on the shields and dubbing a...  Read More >>

Italy's story isn't a tidy timeline-it's a wild feast of triumphs and tantrums, where emperors feasted on conquests...  Read More >>

The UK didn't crown itself in a quiet corner-it clawed from Celtic fogs where druids slung spells against Caesar's...  Read More >>

You have to gag on the official yarn that the Titanic was just bad luck and worse binoculars, when the real gut-punch...  Read More >>

Vikings burst from Scandinavia's crags around 793, dragon-prowed ships gutting English monasteries like Lindisfarne,...  Read More >>

From the Nile's silted banks, where Tutankhamun's tomb exhaled a plague that felled archaeologists like dominoes,...  Read More >>

Rome kicked off in the muck of seven hills, where Romulus knifed his brother over a wall line and augurs read bird...  Read More >>

This history explores European peoples from prehistoric migrations and ancient civilizations through Middle Ages,...  Read More >>

India's dawn breaks in Harappan harbors where copper traders bartered beads for lapis, their grid streets draining...  Read More >>

Start in the red-earth cradle where Dong Son bronzes drummed up wet-rice warlords, fending off Han hordes with elephant...  Read More >>

The Middle Ages hummed with more than monk chants and manor drudgery-think plague doctors waddling in beak masks...  Read More >>

This history traces Argentina from pre-Columbian societies and Spanish colonization through independence wars, Rosas...  Read More >>

Belgium didn't bloom from buttercups-it clawed from Frankish fringes where Julius Caesar's boys bridged the Rhine,...  Read More >>

Indiens Wiege schaukelte in Indus-Tälern, wo Harappa-Händler vor Jahrtausenden Kupfer für Lapislazuli tauschten,...  Read More >>

Deutschlands Boden birgt mehr als Wurzeln - er hortet Geheimnisse, die von bronzezeitlichen Kulten bis zu mittelalterlichen...  Read More >>

Ever stare at the news and wonder if the puppet masters are laughing from their bunkers? ""The 50 Craziest Conspiracies""...  Read More >>

Stell dir vor, du blätterst durch Deutschlands verborgene Schatzkiste: Ein Fakt, wie Bismarck mit einem Duellpartner...  Read More >>

The History of the Book is a sweeping chronicle that traces the book's remarkable story from its earliest origins...  Read More >>