History

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War—a simmering crisis that finally tore a deeply divided nation in two....

A lively and engaging narrative history showing the common threads in the cultures that gave birth to our own....

There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in a matter of hours: nuclear war. And one of the triggers for that war would be a nuclear missile inbound toward the United States.

A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the American past and present....

From the Pulitzer-prize winning, New York Times bestselling author, an alarming account of how autocracies work together to undermine the democratic world, and how we should organize to defeat them.

Two U.S. Navy SEAL officers demonstrate how to apply powerful battlefield leadership principles from the battlefield to business and life.

Even among iconic frontiersmen like John C. Fremont, Kit Carson, and Jedediah Smith, Jim Bridger stands out. A mountain man of the American West, straddling the fur trade era and the age of exploration, he lived the life legends are made of....

This Pulitzer Prize-winning history of World War II chronicles the dramatic rise and fall of the Japanese empire....

Winner of the National Book Award and now considered a classic, The House of Morgan is the most ambitious history ever written about an American banking dynasty....

It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother’s coffin as the world watched in sorrow—and horror. As Princess Diana was laid to rest, billions wondered what Prince William and Prince Harry must be thinking and feeling....

On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell....

A groundbreaking narrative that explores the ways in which biology and history have shaped our understanding of what it means to be “human”.

Prosecuting attorney in the Manson trial Vincent Bugliosi held a unique insider's position in one of the most baffling and horrifying cases of the 20th century....

An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America’s most beloved historians, artfully weaves together biography, memoir, and history. She takes you along on the emotional journey she and her husband embarked upon in the last years of his life.

This sweeping history of the often-violent conflict between Islam and the West sheds a revealing light on current hostilities....

From the author of the definitive New York Times best-selling history of the Beatles comes the authoritative account of the group many call the greatest rock band of all time, arguably the most successful, and certainly one of the most notorious....

Cody Cassidy provides a detailed guide to surviving history’s most challenging threats, from outrunning dinosaurs to making it off the Titanic alive....

Yuval Noah Harari returns with an original, compelling, and provocative book, turning his focus toward humanity's future and our quest to upgrade humans into gods....

In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, the Osage rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe....

Virtually all Americans above a certain age hold strong opinions about Douglas MacArthur....

Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the number-one New York Times best seller Outliers, reinvents the audiobook in this immersive production of Talking to Strangers, a powerful examination of our interactions with people....

The number one New York Times best-selling story about American Olympic triumph in Nazi Germany, the inspiration for the PBS documentary The Boys of '36, broadcast to coincide with the 2016 Summer Olympics and the 80th anniversary of the boys' gold medal race....

New York Times best-selling author and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times best-selling historian and novelist Katherine Howe to chronicle the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty - his mother’s family, the Vanderbilts....

In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world....

What is so important about the year 1215? It's the year the Magna Carta was signed, but there are few who know that King John of England’s acceptance of this charter was only one of four major, world-changing events of this significant year....

Discover the extraordinary world of Karaite Judaism with Karaite Judaism for Beginners: Insights into an Ancient Faith. This captivating guide opens the door to a unique branch of Judaism that has preserved its distinct identity and practices for centuries. Whether you are a curious reader, a student of religion, or someone seeking deeper understanding, this book is your gateway to a fascinating tradition. Unearth the Fundamentals: Begin your journey with a clear and engaging introduction to Karaite beliefs. Learn how Karaites follow the written Torah as their sole religious authority, ...

Wonderfully narrated by Karen Chilton, Afrofuturism is an engaging, hip, and accessible primer to the music, literature, and art of Afrofuturism. Author Ytasha Womack introduces listeners to the burgeoning community of artists creating Afrofuturist works.

Want to know a little more about crochet and where it came from? Learn how crochet got started, who created the first pattern, what are crochet terms, crochet hooks sizes and styles and more! This book is for beginners to advanced crafters, and provides a rich, engaging resource that inspires creativity and deepens appreciation for the craft of crochet. In this book you’ll find the answers and information to questions such as: My Crochet Story What is Crochet? History of Crochet Tools and Materials Basic to Advanced Crochet Techniques and Stitches Crochet Terms and Abbreviations Crochet ...

Won Best Novel - Historical Fiction award from the International Latino Books Awards. From the author of the award-winning "Waiting on Zapote Street." In 1961, brothers Angel and Roberto—ages fifteen and twelve—become part of the Pedro Pan Operation, the biggest recorded exodus to the United States of unaccompanied children in the Western Hemisphere. They glimpse at what they are about to experience when their aunt, Marina, begs a stranger to take her infant son out of Cuba to save him from the new authoritarian government. Moments later, Mirta, the boys’ mother, tearily hugs and ...

Practically Still a Virgin is the riveting memoir of a fifteen-year-old adoptee’s rape—and the pregnancy that changed her life. During Alaska’s rough-and-tumble 1970s oil boom, a time when prostitution, violence, and lawlessness reigned, Monica Hall rebels against her strict Catholic parents in a downward spiral of delinquency. Overwhelmed by guilt and shame when the unthinkable happens, Hall is forced to make impossible choices. Will she keep her rapist’s identity a secret and defy her parents when they demand to know who fathered her baby?

Centuries after a cataclysmic depopulation of the world, mankind sought to replicate the one great monument that survived from the previous age. Pyramids were erected everywhere as colonies of survivors thrived, but none have matched the Great Pyramid of Giza in size and meaning. Its secrets are now uncovered and explored in this important groundbreaking book. This book also reveals: • Ancient traditions of the pyramid found in an extinct language. • An ancient body of teachings holding that Enoch was the architect of the Giza monuments before the Great Flood. • New discoveries of the...

Henry Mulford Tichenor (1858 - 1922) was a writer and journalist, who was a very active free thinker in the early Twentieth Century. A special target of Tichenor was organized religion, which he viewed as an absurdly contrived cultural artefact. In The Olympian Gods he applies a critical scalpel to the religion of the ancient Greeks, which he regarded as an obvious precursor to Christianity.

The Story of Religious Foundations, by Jordan Maxwell, Paul Tice and Alan Snow. This book shows how many Christian beliefs could be far older than what we have suspected. It gives a complete run-down of the stellar, lunar, and solar evolution of our religious systems and contains new, exhaustive research on the gods and our beliefs. The book ’s main theme centers on the work of Jordan Maxwell. He has become widely known as one of the world ’s foremost experts on mythological systems and their influence on both ancient and modern religions. The book also includes an interview with Dr. ...

Have you ever wondered why religion can turn out to be as enslaving to people's minds as jails are to their bodies? Why is such enslavement not only welcomed, but why do the victims try so hard to enslave others? Why have more wars been fought over religion and more deaths of people caused by it than for any other reason? Why should we not want to break free from this terribly negative pattern? Jack Barranger addresses these problems and gives answers in this book. Being a trained theologian and former teacher of Critical Thinking, there is no better person to write this book. He believes ...

The United States of American is being torn about by political differences more than any time since the 1960s and maybe since the Civil War of the 1860s. This division was amplified by political events in the summer to fall of 2018. This time period could prove to be seminal in the history of the United States. It could precipitate this country into ever widening divisions, or it could be when the country realized it needed to pull together and heal the splits in our society..

The Wonders of the Invisible World was a book written by Cotton Mather and published in 1693. It was subtitled, Observations As well Historical as Theological, upon the Nature, the Number, and the Operations of the Devils. The book defended Mather’s role in the witch hunt conducted in Salem, Massachusetts. It espoused the belief that witchcraft was an evil magical power.

Written records of the ancient world excavated from the Near East to the western shores of ancient South America are filled with obscure references to a race of giants. Most biblical scholars are unaware of or choose to ignore the over 80 references to giants found in the books of the Old Testament. In the same way, historians have overlooked the hundreds of references to gigantic people mentioned by ancient chronographers. Despite this fact, the greatest common denominator in the pages of the world's oldest epic texts concerns giants. Enormous humanoid skeletons have been unearthed in the ...

On January 11, 1989, Reagan gave the following farewell address to the nation from the Oval Office. The two things I’m proudest of are the economic recovery which created 19 million new jobs and that America is respected again in the world.

The Third British Empire. Sir Alfred Eckhard Zimmern (1879–1957) was an English classical scholar, historian, and political scientist writing on international relations. His book, The Third British Empire, was among the first to apply the expression "British Commonwealth" to the British Empire. He is also credited with the phrase "welfare state", which was made popular a few years later by William Temple.

This book contains words of wisdom from the prophet Muhammad, the sahabah, the salaf and the scholars of the Muslim nation in english with sources cited.