Paine argues that the interests of the monarch and his people are united, and insists that the French Revolution should be understood as one which attacks the despotic principles...

COMMON SENSE is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775-76 that inspired people in the Thirteen Colonies to declare and fight for independence from Great Britain in the summer...

Our knowledge of Manetho is uncertain, but we can affirm three things that are: his homeland, his priesthood in Heliopolis and his activity for the introduction of the cult of...

In the darkness before moonrise on the Atlantic Ocean off the African coast on August 21, 1940, the night erupted in a fusillade of bullets and shells. The victim was a stalwart...

From Stephen E. Ambrose, bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day, the inspiring story of the ordinary men of the U.S. army in northwest Europe from the day after D-Day...

In the blockbuster tradition of The First Man in Rome -- Colleen Mccullough's monumental Masters of Rome series continues.The man behind the legend...the women behind the...

“The Raw youth” is a novel by the Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky, first published in 1875. This novel recounts the intellectual life 19-year-old, Arkady Dolgoruky,...

PrefaceDuring the year 1875 I published under title of The Native Races of the Pacific States what purports to be an exhaustive research into the character and customs...

BEHIND THE LINES: Powerful and Revealing American and Foreign War Letters -- and One Man's Search to Find Them by Andrew Carroll "The Mission ContinuesŠ" Tour Andrew...

History as it's supposed to be told: true and thrilling.History is about so much more than memorizing facts. It is, as more than half of the word suggests, about the story. And,...