History books

""For who is so indifferent or indolent as not to wish to know by what means the Romans succeeded in subjecting...  Read More >>

Physicians for the People chronicles the remarkable stories of 241 Black doctors who practiced medicine in Alabama...  Read More >>

American wars in Iraq were a defining feature of global politics for almost thirty years. The Gulf War of 1991,...  Read More >>

American wars in Iraq were a defining feature of global politics for almost thirty years. The Gulf War of 1991,...  Read More >>

""For who is so indifferent or indolent as not to wish to know by what means the Romans succeeded in subjecting...  Read More >>

""For who is so indifferent or indolent as not to wish to know by what means the Romans succeeded in subjecting...  Read More >>

Power. Revenge. Forbidden love in the heart of a dying empire. When Viking warlord Hasting arrives at the gates...  Read More >>

Power. Revenge. Forbidden love in the heart of a dying empire. When Viking warlord Hasting arrives at the gates...  Read More >>

At twenty-three, nurse Mary Reed Dewar leaves an orderly New Jersey childhood for a war-bruised China-and discovers...  Read More >>

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BCE) was one of the most influential figures in late republican Rome, a moment of...  Read More >>

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BCE) was one of the most influential figures in late republican Rome, a moment of...  Read More >>

This book continues Bradley M. Gottfried's efforts to study and illustrate the major campaigns of the Civil War's...  Read More >>

This collection of essays explores some of the ways people have imagined and re-imaged the war, at the tension between...  Read More >>

Edited by Stephen Davis, this offers 70 selections pertaining to the Atlanta Campaign.  Read More >>

Dixon Barnes instilled discipline and strong leadership in the unit and began a transformational process that turned...  Read More >>

In mid-fourteenth-century Japan, amid decades of civil unrest caused by a violent rivalry over imperial succession,...  Read More >>

""Traces the history of two Philadelphia outdoor music venues, the Mann Center for the Performing Arts and the Robin...  Read More >>

Starting from the assertion that knowing takes place through bodily movement, Susan Leigh Foster theorizes how the...  Read More >>

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Laughter, Power, and the Unconscious presents groundbreaking research on humor's psychological and sociopolitical...  Read More >>

This open access book defines the cinematic Gothic as an aesthetics of memory and exile. Drawing on film, memory,...  Read More >>

In a world where writing by hand is disappearing, Laura Vermeeren studies why calligraphy in China is not just surviving,...  Read More >>

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A sweeping story of survival and sacrifice, spanning from the villages of Cambodia to the streets of New York,...  Read More >>