Before The Oath - Prijzen

Castro

The story of Fidel Castro has few parallels in contemporary history. None of the outstanding Third World leaders of the twentieth-century played such a prominent and restless part on the international...

From Slave Ship to Harvard

From Slave Ship to Harvard is the true story of an African American family in Maryland over six generations. The author has reconstructed a unique narrative of black struggle and achievement from pain...

Negroland

The daughter of a successful paediatrician and a fashionable socialite, Margo Jefferson spent her childhood among Chicago's black elite. She calls this society 'Negroland': 'a small region of Negro Am...

Media and the Cold War in the 1980s

The Cold War was a media phenomenon. It was a daily cultural political struggle for the hearts and minds of ordinary people-and for government leaders, a struggle to undermine their enemies' ability t...

The Life of Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down, Connor, and Dromore. by George L. Duyckinck.

Unsinkable

The familiar story of the RMS Titanic--from her tragic 10-second encounter with an iceberg to her descent to the bottom of the ocean some three hours later, taking with her more than 1,500 lives--stil...

New Orleans as It Was. Episodes of Louisiana Life.

A description of New Orleans during the early nineteenth century. Beginning with Andrew Jackson's arrival in the city, this pictorial study examines New Orleans during the early nineteenth century. Th...

The Southern Political Tradition

In The Southern Political Tradition, the distinguished southern historian Michael Perman explores the region's distinctive political practices and behaviors, primarily resulting from the South's perce...

Before the Deluge

Ever since the French Revolution, Madame de Pompadour's comment, Apres moi, le deluge (after me, the deluge), has looked like a callous if accurate prophecy of the political cataclysms that began in...

Peenemunde Raid

On the night of 17-18 August 1943, RAF Bomber Command attacked a remote research establishment on the German Baltic coast. The site was Peenemunde, where Hitler's scientists were developing both the V...

Colin the Chameleon

This is a gorgeous picture book that tells the story of a chameleon who, unlike his siblings, cannot change colour and therefore faces certain dangers. Eventually, Colin finds that it is this very dif...

Kaiser'S Battle

At 9.30am on 21 March 1918, the last great battle of the First World War commenced when three German armies struck a massive blow against the weak divisions of the British Third and Fifth Armies. It...