History books

Rivers built the first map of America.Before interstates, before airports, before a town could advertise itself...  Read More >>

Take a nostalgic stroll down Main Street, U.S.A., and step inside a remarkable intersection of American innovation,...  Read More >>

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SERIES OVERVIEW An Encyclopedia of Black History is a comprehensive 26-volume reference series documenting the lives,...  Read More >>

Historisches Lernen ist der Prozess, bei dem Menschen vergangene Ereignisse deuten und aneignen, um eine eigene...  Read More >>

When seventeen-year-old Maya discovers she can see echoes of the past woven into the present, she learns she has...  Read More >>

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This new English edition of Roman Building makes available the most up-to-date revision of the text to a new generation...  Read More >>

This book explores the military and economic contributions of European reservists in Argentina and Argentine-born...  Read More >>

""The secret of her divine heritage revealed, Freya finds herself on a path that will see thousands of lives lost...  Read More >>

In 1875, in a small apartment in New York City, a handful of freemasons and spiritualists met in secret. After hours...  Read More >>

""From the New York Times bestselling author of Midnight in Chernobyl comes the ... dramatic, minute-by-minute story...  Read More >>

Following on from his epic ‘1812: Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow’, bestselling author Adam Zamoyski has written...  Read More >>

This book examines 'womanhood' and 'race' not only as disputed, converging, and constantly changing categories and...  Read More >>

With contributions from an international range of scholars, this ground-breaking study explores the forms, contexts,...  Read More >>

By unravelling the complexities of their representation and experiences, Performance and Protest examines the participation...  Read More >>

Although Indigenous peoples are often perceived as standing outside political modernity, this book takes the provocative...  Read More >>

An ""unsparing, erudite, and incisive"" (Jelani Cobb, staff writer, The New Yorker) reframing of the past and present...  Read More >>

Ancient astronomical knowledge, nationalist aspirations, artistic imagination, and community practices intersect...  Read More >>

Adding Life to Years: The Wesleyan at Georgetown ""The skill of science has added years to life—now we must add...  Read More >>

Like no other country’s Germany’s identity is shaped by its history or rather by the critical engagement with this...  Read More >>

A fascinating insight into the most talented Latin poets to occupy the Papal throne after Pius II Piccolomini in...  Read More >>

In this book, Robert K. Beshara applies decolonial film theory to an analysis of Youssef Chahine’s (1997) Al-Masir...  Read More >>

This book gives you the historical sensation of coming face to face with the bodily expression and regulation of...  Read More >>

Drawing on rich archival sources and summarizing extensive interviews with women who participated in the Portuguese...  Read More >>