An important book of epic scope on America's first racially integrated, religiously inspired movement for change. The true story of the Underground Railroad is much more morally complex and...
The international bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa vividly brings to life the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake that leveled a city symbolic of Americas relentless expansion
The international bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa vividly brings to life the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake that leveled a city symbolic of Americas relentless expansion
Best-selling social commentator and cultural historian Barbara Ehrenreich presents a fascinating exploration of one of humanity’s oldest traditions: the celebration of communal joy, historically expressed in ecstatic revels of feasting, costuming, and dancing.
America's courts, legal culture, and law schools remain solidly in the Left's camp. Decades of liberal legal precedents fill volumes of law tomes. Absent a sweeping change, precisely what author Mark W. Smith calls for in Disrobed, liberals will ruthlessly exploit their dominant position in the...
Presents the history of the Twentieth Century, based on contemporary accounts of events as they happened, using BBC Archives. Presented in 10 episodes as a unique oral history. One for each decade...
From the #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of John Adams
First published in 1972, The Great Bridge is the classic account of one of the greatest engineering feats of all time—the...
The World Cup is the largest sports event outside the summer Olympics: the progress of the 32 countries which qualify for the finals is watched by billions all over the globe. To host the World Cup...
James Gleick has long been fascinated by the making of science -- how ideas order visible appearances, how equations can give meaning to molecular and stellar phenomena, how theories can transform...
This major new Radio 4 series charts the development of Western medicine and healing from the ancient Greeks to the pioneering organ transplant operations of the 20th Century and beyond.
The lives and music of the great composers of classical music unfold in this entertaining account, introduced by singer and presenter Aled Jones. In 1200 years, classical music grew from the...
The End of the First National Welfare System. In less than fifty months, Henry VIII and his chief minister, Thomas Cromwell, swept away the monasteries...
Here are more than 60 eyewitness accounts from history. Many are notable events: the Battle of Thermopylae, The Black Death in 1348, the Great Fire of London, the execution of Louis XVI, the death...
"For some years I have been afflicted with the belief that flight is possible to man. My disease has increased in severity and I feel that it will soon cost me an increased amount of money if...
Britain’s most popular cook describes his personal culinary odyssey, from dangerous encounters with his mother’s weevil-seasoned cakes to being harangued by readers who think he deliberately styles...
Tulia, in Blakeslee's rich and deeply satisfying telling resembles nothing so much as a modern-day To Kill a Mockingbird, or would, that is, if the novel were a true story..
Liza Picard shows us the physical reality of daily life. She takes us to schools and prisons, churches and cemeteries and records the events of the reign of Victoria...