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Daniel Goldhagen's study of the Holocaust offers conclusions that run directly counter to those reached by Christopher Browning, whose book Ordinary Men is also ...
A unique, in-depth view of Victorian London during the record-breaking summer of 1858, when residents both famous and now-forgotten endured "The Great Stink" together
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American scholar Jared Diamond deploys his powers of interpretation to great effect in Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, which seeks to understand ...
One criticism of history is that historians all too often study it in isolation, failing to take advantage of models and evidence from scholars in ...
Frederick Jackson Turner's 1893 essay on the history of the United States remains one of the most famous and influential works in the American ...
General Sherman's 1864 burning of Atlanta solidified his legacy as a ruthless leader. Yet Sherman proved far more complex than his legendary military tactics ...
In his 1997 work Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond marshals evidence from five continents and across 13,000 years of human history in an ...
Keith Thomas's classic study of all forms of popular belief has been influential for so long now that it is difficult to remember how ...
`Reconstruction' is the name given to the period that, beginning shortly before the end of the American Civil War and running until 1877, saw the ...
Few works of history make as well-structured a case for the importance of studying continuity, rather than change, than Albert Hourani's A History of ...
The Second World War was one of the most catastrophic events in human history. But how did the experience and memory of bloodshed affect our ...
In this fascinating new book, acclaimed scholar and bestselling author Paul Kengor tells the untold story of the partnership between Pope John Paul II and ...
The turbulent Tudor age never fails to capture the imagination. But what was it actually like to be a woman during this period? This was ...
The Prisoner in His Palace is an evocative and thought-provoking account of how the lives of twelve young American soldiers deployed to Iraq are upended ...