History

When Reno Republican Barbara Vucanovich was elected to Congress in 1982, she became the first Nevada woman ever elected to a federal office. Campai...

Large numbers of slaves worked for the Confederate war effort as wagon drivers, munitions factory workers, and officers body servants. But contrary...

On Historys Trail: Speeches and Essays of the Texas State Historian, 20092012 contains twenty-nine speeches and essays from Light Townsend Cumminss...

Karachi is a city framed in the popular imagination by violence, be it criminality and gangsterism or political factionalism. That perception also ...

The autobiography of Tony Bentley-Buckle, a child of the Empire who was left to grow up in the care of maiden aunts. Having joined the Royal Navy b...

Israel is a modern country with a short history set into the lengthy story of Jewish history. A Brief History of Israel, Third Edition explores tha...

Red Water, Black Gold: The Canadian River in Texas 19201999 tells the story of the Canadian River in the Texas Panhandle. It is a tale of grand des...

The discovery and mining of the Comstock Lode in Nevada forever changed the mining culture of the American West. Using the pen name Dan De Quille, ...

Roman Britain was created not by impersonal historical forces, but by men and women, each driven by ambition, aspiration and passion. The Romans...

In times of war . . . in times of peace . . . in times of sweeping social change . . . a leader for all seasons . . .Whether scaling the seemingly ...

The ultimate work of historical reference The Times Complete History of the World is the most comprehensive, authoritative and accessible...

The early twentieth-century advent of aerial bombing made successful evacuations essential to any war effort, but ordinary people resented them ...

Recent international intervention in Afghanistan has reproduced familiar versions of the Afghan national story, from repeatedly doomed invasions to...

Based on extended interviews conducted from the Pakistani countryside to Washington, AP Foreign Correspondents in Action: World War II to the Prese...

The Walking the Western Front series started in 2012 with the release of two films on the Ypres Salient. Directed by acclaimed film maker Ed Skeldi...