History

Sacagawea: Girl of the Shining Mountains

by Peter Roop & Connie Roop

A Perilous Journey: At age eleven, Sacagawea was kidnapped by an enemy tribe, forced into slavery, and later married off to a fur trader more than twice her age. Now at sixteen, she's about to become an integral...

Oxfordshire Folk Tales

by Kevan Manwaring

Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross and listen to the tales of this ancient county. Hear how a King and his knights were turned to stone at the mysterious Rollright Stones; how Dragon Hill got its name; take...

Atsumori

by Zeami Motokiyo

The japanese Noh drama by the Master Zeami Motokiyo about the Buddhist priest Rensei and the warrior of the Taira Clan Atsumori. The story of redention of the warrior Kumagai Jiro Naozane that killed the young...

London Folk Tales

by Helen East

The Folk Tales series, compiled by celebrated storytellers, gathers together tales from the oral tradition in book form. The selection of 30 tales and legends from the deepest corners of the area should reflect...

Blood of My Ancestor

by Carolyn Howard

Goldsberry Hollow was a rural community in Martin County, Indiana that was first settled in the 1800s by the Goldsberry family. When Alanson Lyon moved his family into the hollow in 1864, it made the Goldsberry...

Some Ancient Greek Textiles Found in Russia

by , Eugenia Tolmachoff

At an archaeological dig in south Russia some fascinating fabric was found and seemed to be from ancient Greece, this is the story of those fabrics written by somebody on the dig. Many of the earliest books,...

Staffordshire Folk Tales

by The Journey Man

These lively and entertaining folk tales from one of Britain's most ancient counties are vividly retold by local storyteller The Journey Man. Their origins lost in the oral tradition, these thirty stories from...

War Stories

by David Venditta

War Stories: In Their Own Words Pennsylvania veterans tell of sacrifice and courage

Forging America

by The Morning Call

Forging America: The Story of Bethlehem Steel

The Abyss: World War I and the End of the First Age of Globalization--A Selection from TheWar of the World (Penguin Tracks)

by Niall Ferguson

Excerpted from Niall Ferguson’s sprawling bestseller The War of the World, The Abyss now stands on its own as one of the most thrilling short histories of World War I ever written. This is not a conventional...

The Negro in the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta

by , Alfred Holt Stone

A historical document giving a fascinating and stomach turning insight into race relations in the southern United States. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before,...

Essex Folk Tales

by Jan Williams

These lively and entertaining folk tales form one of Britain's most ancient counties are vividly retold by local storyteller Jan Williams. Their origins lost in the oral tradition, these thirty stories from...

The Journey Back: Sequel to the Newbery Honor Book The Upstairs Room

by Johanna Reiss

The moving sequel to the Newbery Honor book, The Upstairs Room. After years of hiding from the Nazis during World War II, Annie is told the war is over and she must return home. Despite all odds she has survived...

Ned Ludd & Queen Mab: Machine-Breaking, Romanticism, and the Several Commons of 1811-12

by Peter Linebaugh

Peter Linebaugh, in an extraordinary historical and literary tour de force, enlists the anonymous and scorned 19th century loom-breakers of the English midlands into the front ranks of an international, polyglot,...

A Wistful Legacy

by Don E McGregor

A Wistful Legacy is a novel of the Holocaust. Spanning in time from 1918 to 2006, it shows how Nazism and the Second World War mutilated millions of ordinary lives.

Love and loyalty survive the greatest conflict...

Vampires: Unearthing the Bloodthirsty Legend

by Mark Collins Jenkins

What real-life character inspired Bram Stoker’s classic Dracula? Did a blood-sucking demon haunt ancient Mespotamia? Did 16th century Venetians drive a stake through the heart of a true vampire, or was something...

The Joe Public Guide to Being English

by Colin Richardson

This second edition of The Joe Public Guide to Being English is an interesting and informative celebration of the achievements of England and the English across the years. It examines the English contribution...

Life in Roman Britain

by Ken Dark & Petra Dark

What was it like to live in Roman Britain? What sort of house would you have lived in? What sort of clothes would you have worn? This book takes us back in time to see what it was really like to live in Roman...

Life in Nelson's Navy

by Brian Lavery

What was it really like to be at sea in the Navy with Nelson? Were the sailors excited about the Battle of Trafalgar, or suffering scurvey? How did life compare between those of a high range, and those who served...

Life in a Cave

by Paul Jordan

What was it like to be a caveman? What sort of house would you live in? What sort of clothes would you wear? Paul Jordan takes us back in time to see what it was really like to live in prehistoric times, what...