This sequel to the best selling series, History's Turning Points, continues with thirteen additional moments in time that changed the course of history. These docu-dramas, with dramatizations carried out at the actual sites of the events and some newly released historical footage, provide perspectives of these events that only visual interpretations of the latest in historical research can provide.
Fly with the Wright Brothers, storm the Bastille, learn how television was created and what it meant to the war in Vietnam.
Published in 1917, Marshall’s book of stories from the history of the United States begins with accounts of exploration and settlement, and ends with the presidency of Woodrow Wilson.
History of Indian Literature is a classic work covering the entire gamut of Indian Secular and Religious literature including epic; lyric, dramatic and didactic poetry, as well as Narrative and Scientific prose. It includes not only the large number of works of religious literature-hymns, sacrificial songs, incantations, myths and legends; sermons, Theological treatises; polemical writings, manuals of instruction on ritual and religious discipline but also the lyrical and dramatic works; including the two great epics, the fairy-tales, fables, prose-narratives; the belles-lettres and works on various sciences.
History of the United States : Conflict & Independence (Vol. 2)
In 1921, Charles and Mary Beard published their textbook: History of the United States. A contemporaneous review stated: The authors… assume enough maturity in…students to justify a topical rather than a chronological treatment.
History of the United States: The Colonial Period Onwards (Vol 1)
Vol. I: The Colonial Period. Charles Austin Beard was the most influential American historian of the early 20th century. He published hundreds of monographs, textbooks and interpretive studies in both history and political science.
