866円 What in the world happened in 1844? Followers of William Miller and the Millerite movement expected the Advent, the Second Coming of Jesus, in 1844. When the Advent did not happen as expected, the Great Disappointment ensued. Miller was wrong. But was he? Did the spirit of Christ return in 1844 i...

2,669円 'No other person who has flown in space has captured the experience so vividly' - New York Times Book Review In July 1969, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins piloted the Apollo 11 spacecraft to the moon. Fifty years later, it is still one of the greatest achievements in human history...

2,285円 Over het slavernijverleden van Nederland wordt volop en breed discussie gevoerd. Aan meningen geen gebrek, en terecht, want dat de slavernij een zwarte bladzij in onze geschiedenis vormt, zal niemand ontkennen. Maar hoe zag die bladzij er precies uit? Wat zijn de historische feiten? Daarvoor zou ...

10,280円 Atlantic Lives offers insight into the lived experiences of a range of actors in the early modern Atlantic World. Organized thematically, each chapter features primary source selections from a variety of non-traditional sources, including travel narratives from West Africa, the Caribbean, and Lat...

3,562円 THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ‘The farewell calls from the planes… the mounting terror of air traffic control… the mothers who knew they were witnessing their loved ones perish… From an author who’s spent 5 years reconstructing its horror, never has the story been told with such devastating, huma...

1,585円 A CBC BOOKS MUST-READ NONFICTION BOOK FOR BLACK HISTORY MONTH Nominated for the Toronto Book Award Smartly dressed and smiling, Canada’s black train porters were a familiar sight to the average passengerーyet their minority status rendered them politically invisible, second-class in the social im...

993円 In the US by mid-January 2019, migrant levels and outright invasion had reached epidemic levels echoing countries across the Atlantic who cultures and traditions have been attacked by incoming invaders reminiscent of centuries gone. No longer should you push the option out button of US immigratio...

160円 Welcome to a treasure chest of FREE books on American History from the discovery of North America to the First World War, presently available on the Internet! In this book you will have free access to 300 works relating to almost every period in American History. The titles have been organized ac...

999円 SHORTY and BIG BOY HOGUE blazed across the West Coast fight scene of the 1930s and 40s like twin comets. Crossing gloves with former and future world champions and oft-avoided dangerous contenders, such as Archie Moore, Charley Burley, Lloyd Marshall, Eddie Booker, and other members of the infamo...

3,524円 "I too am not a bit tamedーI too am untranslatable / I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world."ーWalt Whitman, "Song of Myself," Leaves of Grass The American Yawp is a free, online, collaboratively built American history textbook. Over 300 historians joined together to create the book...

4,015円 Stretching across Ontario, Manitoba, and Minnesota, the Lake of the Woods and Rainy Lake basin spans boundaries and jurisdictions. Levelling the Lake explores a century and a half of social, economic, and legal arrangements through which the resources and environment of the Lake of the Woods and ...

3,447円 Britain yesterday; America today. The reality of being top dog is that everybody hates you. In this provocative book, noted historian and commentator Jeremy Black shows how criticisms of the legacy of the British Empire are, in part, criticisms of the reality of American power today. He emphasize...