Before the Dawn Recovering This well written book is a very ambitious attempt to summarize and integrate a large body of information related to the emergence of modern humans. Wade covers a large amount of material including …
Mao s China and
Maurice Meisner got on my good side in the introduction to this, the third edition of his history of the People’s Republic of China: He admitted and set about correcting errors in earlier editions …
A Short History of Professor Alasdair MacIntyre in “A Short History of Ethics” produced an interesting book covering the long history of moral philosophy. The author provides a historical background and perspective …
A Documentary History of Read the words that shaped the character of our nation and changed the history of the world. From the rousing Declaration of Independence to the inspiring speeches of our modern presidents, this …
The American Spirit United As a secondary school social studies teacher I found this book very helpful. There are numerous sources, and each has an informative and interesting introduction. A broad range of sources include …
The New History in The New History in an Old Museum is an exploration of “historical truth” as presented at Colonial Williamsburg. More than a detailed history of a museum and tourist attraction, it examines the …
A History of Western Suprisingly the book begins with Ancient Rome, leaving the Caves, Stonehenge, and Egypt out, but as a result has more time to explore Western Architecture in greater depth for a Survey Book. The …
A Brief History of The author does an execellent job on summarizing many years of Central American history. If you want to learn a little something about Central America and its history this is the book. This is the …
The Heart of Hebrew This is a great resource book.
I needed something to make sure that I was able to fill in some of the missing wholes in my understanding of the sequence of events, and where given individuals appear …
People of the Earth This internationally renowned text provides the only truly global account of human prehistory from the earliest times through the earliest civilizations. Written in an accessible way, People of …