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History (from Greek ἱστορία - historia, meaning "inquiry, knowledge acquired by investigation") is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians. It is a field of research which uses a narrative to examine and analyse the sequence of events, and it sometimes attempts to investigate objectively the patterns of cause and effect that determine events. Historians debate the nature of history and its usefulness. This includes discu...more

New Releases Tagged "History"

Frozen in Time: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II
The Borgias: The Hidden History
The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and the Pursuit of America's Enemies to the Ends of the Earth
Who Was Dracula?: Bram Stoker's Trail of Blood
The Creation of Anne Boleyn: A New Look at England's Most Notorious Queen
Defiant Brides: The Untold Story of Two Revolutionary-Era Women and the Radical Men They Married
Daily Rituals: How Artists Work
Bolivar: American Liberator
Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet, and How We Live
Shanghai 1937: Stalingrad on the Yangtze
Let's Bring Back: The Lost Language Edition: A Collection of Forgotten-Yet-Delightful Words, Phrases, Praises, Insults, Idioms, and Literary Flourishes from Eras Past
Dead Certainties: Unwarranted Speculations
My Beloved Brontosaurus: On the Road with Old Bones, New Science, and Our Favorite Dinosaurs
Seven Men: And the Secret of Their Greatness
The Vast Unknown: America's First Ascent of Everest
And Hell Followed with Her: Crossing to the Dark Side of the American Border
The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream
The Story of Spanish
The Alchemists: Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire
The Dispensable Nation: American Foreign Policy in Retreat
The Art of Gothic: Architecture, Sculpture, Painting
The Last Battle: When U.S. and German Soldiers Joined Forces in the Waning Hours of World War II in Europe
July 1914: Countdown to War
Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy from 1453 to the Present
Voices of the Pacific: Untold Stories from the Marine Heroes of World War II
Worlds of Arthur
Paris Reborn: Napoléon III, Baron Haussmann, and the Quest to Build a Modern City
The Story of English: How an Obscure Dialect Became the World's Most-Spoken Language
Masters of the Word: How Media Shaped History
The Origins of the Irish
Gospel of Freedom: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail and the Struggle That Changed a Nation
Hit List: An In-Depth Investigation Into the Mysterious Deaths of Witnesses to the JFK Assassination
Anne Neville: Richard III's Tragic Queen
America Bewitched: The Story of Witchcraft After Salem
Death in the Baltic: The World War II Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff
Ancient Christian Gospels: Their History and Development
Out of Revolution: Autobiography of Western Man
Always Right
Small Wars, Far Away Places- The Genesis of the Modern World: 1945-65
The Wrath of Cochise: The BASCOM Affair and the Origins of the Apache Wars
Country of Ash: A Jewish Doctor in Poland, 1939-1945
The Devil Within: Possession and Exorcism in the Christian West
The Strange History of the American Quadroon: Free Women of Color in the Revolutionary Atlantic World
Alexander the Great: The Anabasis and the Indica
Kennesaw Mountain: Sherman, Johnston, and the Atlanta Campaign
La bataille de Londres
Daisy Chains and Monster Games
One Place: Paul Kwilecki and Four Decades of Photographs from Decatur County, Georgia
GEO Epoche Nr. 60 - Der Amerikanische Bürgerkrieg
The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II
Between Man and Beast: An Unlikely Explorer, the Evolution Debates, and the African Adventure That Took the Victorian World by Storm
Rest in Pieces: The Curious Fates of Famous Corpses
The Secretary: A Journey with Hillary Clinton to the New Frontiers of American Power
Bringing Mulligan Home: The Other Side of the Good War
Out of Order: Stories from the History of the Supreme Court
Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation
Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time
Wild Boy: The Real Life of the Savage of Aveyron
Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America's Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941
Exploding the Phone: The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws who Hacked Ma Bell
My Mother's Wars
Yokohama Yankee: My Family's Five Generations as Outsiders in Japan
Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life
Every Hill and Mountain
The New Mind of the South
Star Trek and History
History's Most Insane Rulers: Lunatics, Eccentrics, and Megalomaniacs From Emperor Caligula to Kim Jong Il
The Myth of Persecution: How Early Christians Invented a Story of Martyrdom
Mania: The Story of the Outraged and Outrageous Lives That Launched a Cultural Revolution
The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century
Lady at the O.K. Corral: The True Story of Josephine Marcus Earp
The Black Russian
Storm Kings: America's First Tornado Chasers
Touching America's History: From the Pequot War Through WWII
Born on a Mountaintop: On the Road with Davy Crockett and the Ghosts of the Wild Frontier
Finding Florida
Russ & Daughters: Reflections and Recipes from the House That Herring Built
Young Titan: The Making of Winston Churchill
Louisa May's Battle: How the Civil War Led to Little Women
Elizabeth of York: The Forgotten Tudor Queen
Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures and Innovations
Revolutionary Iran: A History of the Islamic Republic
Mary Walker Wears the Pants: The True Story of the Doctor, Reformer, and Civil War Hero
The Village: 400 Years of Beats and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues
A Brief History of Vampires
Servants: A Downstairs View of Twentieth-Century Britain
Images Of Women In Antiquity
Deserter
Fractured Times
Capital of the World: The Race to Host the United Nations
Noise: a Human History of Sound and Listening
Against a Tide of Evil: How One Man Became the Whistleblower to the First Mass Murder of the Twenty-First Century

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“Where I'm from, we believe in all sorts of things that aren't true... we call it history.”
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George Orwell
“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
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