Overview :Did you know that 1% of the white noise you see on your television is actually background radiation from the Big Bang? From the formation of... Read More
Overview :When Alison Townsend purchased her first house, in south-central Wisconsin, she put down roots where she never imagined settling. To underst... Read More
Overview :In the 1400s Europe awoke from a thousand-year slumber, what later writers at the time called a "Dark Age." It rediscovered its genetic root... Read More
Overview :This book is an in-depth examination of the labor movement's fight for an eight-hour workday. It traces the history of this struggle from it... Read More
Overview :The Protestant Reformation looks at one of the greatest upheavals of the Western world. It starts with the context of the time and the provo... Read More
Overview :American college teaching is in crisis, or so we are told. But we've heard that complaint for the past 150 years, as critics have denounced ... Read More
Overview :The French Revolution discusses one of the most tumultuous upheavals to established government in the last thousand years. It opens with an ... Read More
Overview :On the eve of World War II, the Squalus, America's newest submarine, plunged into the North Atlantic. Miraculously, thirty-three crew member... Read More
Overview :A day of infamy and a day of bravery. Two days of tragedy and a day of triumph. Collected here are the remarkable stories of five crucial da... Read More
Overview :In 1914 Europe blundered into a civil war that would become the most significant event of the last thousand years: World War I. This book ex... Read More
Overview :Our planet has been spinning in the blackness of Space for 4.5 billion years. People have only been around for a tiny part of it. But what h... Read More
Overview :The traditional image of the Home Front in World War II is of cheery Londoners, singing along to Vera Lynn on the radio and making do and me... Read More
Overview :The InterWar Years details the path from Versailles in 1919 to the invasion of Poland in 1939. It considers the failings of the Treaty of Ve... Read More
Overview :The 24 Hours in Charlottesville author offers a minute-by-minute account of the January 6 riots through the never-before-heard stories of th... Read More
Overview :On the nights of November 9 and 10, 1938, rampaging mobs throughout Germany and the newly acquired territories of Austria and Sudetenland fr... Read More
Overview :A gripping oral history of the white nationalist riots that shook the nation and signaled the arrival of a galvanizing new era, giving unpre... Read More