Overview :"Every teacher, every student of history, every citizen should read this book. It is both a refreshing antidote to what has passed for histo... Read More
Overview :An indispensable resource for thousands of history students over five editions, Writing History: A Guide for Students provides a wealth of t... Read More
Overview :Patriots, Loyalists, and Revolution in New York City, 1775-1776 draws students into the chaos of a revolutionary New York City, where Patrio... Read More
Overview :The houses of history is a clear, jargon-free introduction to the major theoretical approaches employed by historians. This innovative criti... Read More
Overview :First published in 2000, Dipesh Chakrabarty's influential Provincializing Europe addresses the mythical figure of Europe that is often taken... Read More
Overview :"The great French historian Fernand Braudel has done what only giants can: he has made Western man confront the problem of time-individual t... Read More
Overview :The past is what happened. History is what we remember and write about that past, the narratives we craft to make sense out of our memories ... Read More
Overview :"If one laughs when David Hackett Fischer sits down to play, one will stay to cheer. His book must be read three times: the first in anger, ... Read More
Overview :Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States has sold more than 2.5 million copies. It is pushed by Hollywood celebrities, defended... Read More
Overview :A college professor debunks the false liberal narratives which define much of America's school curricula. In 1995, James W. Loewen penned th... Read More
Overview :What is the purpose of studying history? How do we reflect on contemporary life from a historical perspective and can such reflection help u... Read More
Overview :What distinguishes history as a discipline from other fields of study? That's the animating question of Sarah Maza's Thinking About History,... Read More
Overview :A Time Magazine Best Books of the Year. In Landscape and Memory, award-winning author Simon Schama ranges over continents and centuries to r... Read More
Overview :John Wesley was an eighteenth-century Anglican priest and Oxford tutor. He and George Whitefield were the primary leaders of the Evangelical... Read More
Overview :A timely collection of speeches by David McCullough, the most honored historian in the United States--winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, two Nat... Read More
Overview :What is history and why should we study it? Is there such a thing as historical truth? Is history a science? One of the most accomplished hi... Read More
Overview :Social upheaval in early 20th-century Europe is the historical setting for this seminal study by the Spanish philosopher, Jos Ortega y Gass... Read More
Overview :Who is to say how things really were? In formulating a modern answer to the question 'What is History?' Professor Carr shows that the 'facts... Read More
Overview :In a work that is as much about the present as the past, Brad Gregory identifies the unintended consequences of the Protestant Reformation a... Read More