History

The best regiment of either army, North or South - this was the description of Cobb's Legion offered by General Wade Hampton during the Civil War. ...

In 1940, the threat of war in the Pacific forced the United States to expand its fleet quickly. This effort included reconditioning and recommis...

Imperialism, nationalism, religion and race: this narrative charts the tensions that destroyed Alexandria''s ancient walls, leading to the loss of ...

Queen Zenobia of Palmyra in Syria was one of the great women of classical antiquity, a romantic if tragic heroine both to Roman authors and to Chau...

Before the American Civil War, men and women who imagined a multiracial American society (social visionaries) included Protestant sacred music i...

This dictionary gives an enormous amount of basic information on the Third Reich era by listing, and often depicting, German terms connected to ...

The four years between the military defeat of France by Nazi Germany and D-Day were vital, dramatic and eventful years in Anglo-French relations. T...

The period immediately after World War II was a vital one for diplomatic relations and, with the Soviet Union emerging as a new superpower, it was ...

The end of the Qing dynasty in China saw an unprecedented explosion of print journalism. By the turn of the twentieth century, not only had Chinese...

Mexican Texans, fighting for the Confederate cause, in their own words . . . The Civil War is often conceived in simplistic, black and white terms:...

The history of South Texas is more racially and ethnically complex than many people realize. As a border area, South Texas has experienced some esp...

The Florentine musician Jacopo Peri (1561-1633) is known as the composer of the first operas--they include the earliest to survive complete, Euridi...

In the popular consciousness, manipulative speech pervades politicized discourse, and the eloquence of politicians is seen as invariably rooted in ...

The US continues to be the world''s most powerful nation, an enormous driver of culture and technology. The present century has witnessed many mome...

Collecting autographs is a time-honored avocation that has exploded in popularity in recent years, creating a new industry with millions of autogra...

At the height of her career, Bell journeyed into the heart of the Middle East retracing the steps of the ancient rulers who left tangible markers o...

In February 1900 a group of men representing trade unionists, socialists, Fabians and Marxists gathered in London to make another attempt at es...

This study offers a concise survey of Western Civilisation from the Stone Age through the fall of the last Western Roman Emperor in AD 476. Three s...

The Number One BestsellerShortlisted for the Irish Book Awards 2021'A great achievement . . . Brilliant, engaging and essential' Colm Tóibín'At onc...

On 27th May 1977, a small demonstration against the MPLA, the ruling party of Angola - led to the slaughter of thousands, if not tens of thousand...

While the history of the non-violent Civil Rights Movement, from Rosa Parks to Martin Luther King, is one of the great American stories of the twen...

The World Crisis is considered by many to be Winston S. Churchills literary masterpiece. Published across five volumes between 1923 and 1931, Churc...

The resonant ruins of Pompeii are perhaps the most direct route back to the living, breathing world of the ancient Romans. Two million visitors ann...

Edited by Susan M. Alt Foundations of Archaeological Inquiry Jim Skibo, Series Editor Anthropology and Archaeology Many archaeologists have long be...

Confederate President Jefferson Davis hoped one of his commanders could baffle the enemy in his designs on the Mississippi Valley. Confederate Majo...

Selection of correspondence from the house which was once Little Malvern priory, illuminating life at the time. In 1538 John Russell, secretary to...

A Detailed History of RAF Manston 1941-1945 covers the station's history during the period that the RAF was on the offensive against the Luftwaffe....

Offering a fascinating survey of European queenship from 1500-1800, with each chapter beginning with a discussion of the archetypal queens of Weste...

The Armenian Genocide and the Nazi Holocaust are often thought to be separated by a large distance in time and space. But Stefan Ihrig shows that t...

1922 was a year of great turbulence and upheaval. Its events reverberated throughout the rest of the twentieth century and still affect us today, 1...

A fine example of everyone's favourite genre: the genre-defying book, inspired by history, filtered through imagination and finished with a jewelle...

Discover how humans created their world from the objects they left behind - from the US Constitution to the first iPhone - in DK's latest history b...

At the end of the Second World War some of the highest ranking members of the Nazi party escaped from justice. Some of them are names that have res...

'Rigorously researched, The Lost Café Schindler successfully weaves together a compelling and at times deeply moving memoir and family history that...

This is a true historical account of war in the air, at sea and on land in the battle for Malta's survival in the Second World War. It was a battle...