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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 Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces
The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb
Blessings and Disasters: A Story of Alabama
King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution—A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation
Hotshot: A Life on Fire
Ghosts of Hiroshima
The Undiscovered Country: Triumph, Tragedy, and the Shaping of the American West
How to Be a Saint: An Extremely Weird and Mildly Sacrilegious History of the Catholic Church's Biggest Names
Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America
Tell Her Story: Eleanor Bumpurs & the Police Killing That Galvanized New York City
Master of Rome: A Life of Julius Caesar
To Lose a War: The Fall and Rise of the Taliban
Friends with Words: Adventures in Languageland
Domination
Ring of Fire: A New History of the World at War: 1914
Carthage: A New History of an Ancient Empire
War and Power
Death to Order: A Modern History of Assassination
Children of Mars: The Origins of Rome's Empire
Operation Wrath of God: The Secret History of European Intelligence and Mossad's Assassination Campaign
Augustine the African
The Age of Hitler and How We Will Survive It
A Flower Traveled in My Blood: The Incredible True Story of the Grandmothers Who Fought to Find a Stolen Generation of Children
Midnight on the Potomac: The Last Year of the Civil War, the Lincoln Assassination, and the Rebirth of America
Dinner with King Tut: How Rogue Archaeologists Are Re-creating the Sights, Sounds, Smells, and Tastes of Lost Civilizations
The Beast in the Clouds: The Roosevelt Brothers' Deadly Quest to Find the Mythical Giant Panda
Strata: Stories from Deep Time
Monopoly X: How Top-Secret World War II Operations Used the Game of Monopoly to Help Allied POWs Escape, Conceal Spies, and Send Secret Codes
The Road That Made America: A Modern Pilgrim's Journey on the Great Wagon Road
Death by Astonishment: Confronting the Mystery of the World's Strangest Drug
The Roma: A Traveling History
Will Eisner: A Comics Biography
The Man Who Would Be King: Mohammed bin Salman and the Transformation of Saudi Arabia
Together in Manzanar: The True Story of a Japanese Jewish Family in an American Concentration Camp
The Origin of Language: How We Learned to Speak and Why
The Hiroshima Men: The Birth of the Atomic Bomb and the Dawning of the Age of Mutually Assured Destruction
Ghost Nation: The Story of Taiwan and Its Struggle for Survival
Three Revolutions: Russia, China, Cuba and the Epic Journeys that Changed the World
The Great Museum of the Sea: A Human History of Shipwrecks
Pope Leo XIV: Inside the Conclave and the Dawn of a New Papacy
Heal the Beasts: A Jaunt Through the Curious History of the Veterinary Arts
Fascism or Genocide: How a Decade of Political Disorder Broke American Politics
The Colonialist: The Vision of Cecil Rhodes
Black Soldiers, White Laws: The Tragedy of the 24th Infantry in 1917 Houston
Believer's Dilemma: Vajpayee and the Hindu Right's Path to Power, 1977–2018
Alexander the Great: Lives and Legacies

George Orwell
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
George Orwell

Søren Kierkegaard
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Søren Kierkegaard

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