20. Jahrhundert (bis 1945)

For twenty years after September 11, the war on terror was simultaneously everywhere and nowhere. With all of the military violence occurring overseas, Americans found themselves living in two worlds …

The Oregon Trail is a historical non-fiction book written by Francis Parkman Jr., first published in 1849. It chronicles Parkman's journey along the Oregon Trail in 1846, detailing the challenge …

A translation of Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, with word-for-word meanings and precise commentary. New insight into the advanced practices of meditation, kriya yoga and raja yoga. Until Patanjali wrote h …

How the historic resistance to racial desegregation in schools led to the over-punishment of students today Every year, millions of public school students are suspended. This overused punishment remo …

Recipient of an Award of Distinction from the East Tennessee Historical Society and winner of the Peter Seaborg Award for Civil War Scholarship from Sheperd College. “Groce offers a gracefully writte …

How the Confederate capital’s citizens, white and Black, faced their future in the wake of Union victory In April 1865, the Civil War that had consumed the lives of the residents of Richmond, Virgini …

The story of how an Italian American housewife and community organizer battled a Brooklyn Mafia boss and political activist for the hearts and minds of a white working class in revolt. This is the tr …

‚Why Lincoln Laughed‘ is a book that explores a lesser-known facet of one of America’s most revered presidents, Abraham Lincoln: his sense of humor. The book, written by Russell Herman Conwell, illus …

This book examines a remarkable political phenomenon–the dramatic shift of black voters from the Republican to the Democratic party in the 1930s, a shift all the more striking in light of the Democr …

America’s Fatal Leap deconstructs US geopolitics after the end of the Cold War, informed by its author’s unsurpassed command of modern history. Paul W. Schroeder, an acclaimed historian of internatio …