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History (from Greek ἱστορία - historia, meaning "inquiry, knowledge acquired by investigation") is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians. It is a field of research which uses a narrative to examine and analyse the sequence of events, and it sometimes attempts to investigate objectively the patterns of cause and effect that determine events. Historians debate the nature of history and its usefulness. This includes discu ...more

New Releases Tagged "History"

The JFK Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Kennedy―and Why It Failed
Realm of Ice and Sky: Triumph, Tragedy, and History's Greatest Arctic Rescue
Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People
The Sinners All Bow: Two Authors, One Murder, and the Real Hester Prynne
The Killing Fields of East New York: The First Subprime Mortgage Scandal, a White-Collar Crime Spree, and the Collapse of an American Neighborhood
Blood and the Badge: The Mafia, Two Killer Cops, and a Scandal That Shocked the Nation
The Good Mother Myth: Unlearning Our Bad Ideas About How to Be a Good Mom
Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything
How to Share an Egg: A True Story of Hunger, Love, and Plenty
Wiseguys and the White House: Gangsters, Presidents, and the Deals They Made
In Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy in Art and Public Space
Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life
House of Huawei: The Secret History of China's Most Powerful Company
The Secret History of the Rape Kit: A True Crime Story
Dear Miss Perkins: A Story of Frances Perkins's Efforts to Aid Refugees from Nazi Germany
Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning
Pretend We're Dead: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of Women in Rock in the ’90s
The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe
American Oasis: Finding the Future in the Cities of the Southwest
Slavery After Slavery: Revealing the Legacy of Forced Child Apprenticeships on Black Families, from Emancipation to the Present
Save Our Souls: The True Story of a Castaway Family, Treachery, and Murder
Everything Must Go: The Stories We Tell About the End of the World
I Am Nobody's Slave: How Uncovering My Family's History Set Me Free
The Containment: Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North
Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis
Somewhere Toward Freedom: Sherman's March and the Story of America's Largest Emancipation
The Sun Won't Come Out Tomorrow: The Dark History of American Orphanhood
Waste Land: A World in Permanent Crisis
El Cid: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Mercenary
Lawless Republic: The Rise of Cicero and the Decline of Rome
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The Wars of the Lord: The Puritan Conquest of America's First People
The Gathering Storm: The Countdown to the Second World War
Two Sisters: Betrayal, Love, and Resistance in Wartime France
Henry V's Brother: John of Lancaster, Regent of France
Custodians of Wonder: Ancient Customs, Profound Traditions, and the Last People Keeping Them Alive
The Cure for Women: Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Challenge to Victorian Medicine That Changed Women's Lives Forever
Sisters in Science
When We Sold God's Eye: Diamonds, Murder, and a Clash of Worlds in the Amazon
Oathbreakers: The War of Brothers That Shattered an Empire and Made Medieval Europe
Postmortem: What Survives the John Wayne Gacy Murders
Change Everything: Racial Capitalism and the Case for Abolition
Malcolm Before X
A Man on Fire: The Worlds of Thomas Wentworth Higginson
The Last Tsar: The Abdication of Nicholas II and the Fall of the Romanovs
The Study: The Inner Life of Renaissance Libraries
The Afterlife is Letting Go
Vatican Spies: From the Second World War to Pope Francis
The Cold War: A New History
Blue Jerusalem: British Conservatism, Winston Churchill, and the Second World War
The Silk Finisher: Bigotry, Murder, and Sacrifice in the Crossroads of America

Mother Teresa
Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.
Mother Theresa

Zadie Smith
Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.
Zadie Smith, White Teeth

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