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Series
Publisher
Well-Trained Mind Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Spend an entire year investigating the fascinating story of the modern world, from the American Civil War through the end of the twentieth century-from Europe and the Middle East through India, China, the Arabian Peninsula, Australia, and both North and South America!
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
"Today, 1913 is inevitably viewed through the lens of 1914: as the last year before a war that would shatter the global economic order and tear Europe apart, undermining its global pre-eminence. Our perspective narrowed by hindsight, the world of that year is reduced to its most frivolous features... In this illuminating history, Charles Emmerson liberates the world of 1913 from this "prelude to war" narrative, and explores it as it was, in all its...
Author
Publisher
Teaching Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Examines trials throughout history that don't simply end with their verdict. Many have shaped and transformed the very social, political, and legal traditions we take for granted today. It's trials like these that are deserving of the description "great."
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
A series of investigative specials that take the world's most well-known mysteries, and challenges everything we know about them. Narrated and hosted by Laurence Fishburne, the franchise will delve into a wide array of some of the most historically important mysteries of recent times: what was the true reason the Titanic sank? Where did D.B. Cooper disappear to? Did John Wilkes Booth live? Using fresh, new evidence and perspectives, including never-before-seen...
Author
Publisher
Peter Bedrick Books
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Discusses battles and campaigns of European wars from the Spanish Armada to the Crimean War, as well as the Japanese samurai and the American Revolution, Civil War, and Indian wars, and describes weapons, tactics, uniforms, and gear.
Author
Publisher
Perennial
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Award-winning journalist and author Kevin Sites compiles the accounts of soldiers, Marines, their families and friends, and also shares the unsettling narrative of his own failures during war (including complicity in a murder) and the redemptive powers of storytelling in arresting a spiraling path of self-destruction.--Amazon.com
Author
Publisher
McSweeney's Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
"In 1897, gold has been discovered in the Yukon. New York is under the sway of Hearst and Pulitzer. And in a few months, an American battleship will explode in a Cuban harbor, plunging the U.S. into war. This is the story of that extraordinary moment: the turn of the twentieth century, as seen by one of our greatest storytellers of all time...'A Moment in the Sun' takes the whole era in its sights--from the white-racist coup in Wilmington, North Carolina...
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Language
English
Description
"The Way I Heard It presents thirty-five mysteries taken from his podcast of the same name. Every one is a trueish tale about someone you know, filled with facts that you don't. Movie stars, presidents, bloody do-gooders, and villains--they're all here, waiting to shake your hand, hoping you'll remember them. Delivered with Mike Rowe's signature blend of charm, wit, and ingenuity, their stories are part of a larger mosaic--a memoir full of surprising...
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