Julian Hawthorne 
History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 From Discovery of America October 12, 1492 to Battle of Lexington April 19, 1775 

Doyle examines the role of local and national politics on hospitals. Ultimately, Doyle argues that social and economic diversity created a number of models for future health care which rested on a …

Bosnia enjoyed a special status within the Ottoman Empire. Many of the empire”s ”janissaries”, an elite military stratum of soldiers and nobleman, hailed from this Balkan region. So when Sultan …

Gillian Tindall is well known for her ability to breathe a passionate life into the generations of those who have walked the earth before us. Here, using a handful of lives, she evokes the texture an …

Meet Frantz Schmidt: executioner, torturer and, most unusually for his times, diarist. Following in his father’s footsteps, Frantz entered the executioner’s trade as an Apprentice. 394 executions and …

Beautifully illustrated narrative history of the English country church In his engaging account, Sir Roy Strong celebrates the life of the English parish church From the arrival of the missionaries f …

The siege of Venice in 1848 is one of history”s most thrilling and tragic episodes. After half a century of Habsburg imperial rule, the Venetians drove out the occupying army and established their o …

Join historian Suzannah Lipscomb as she reveals the hidden secrets of palaces, castles, theatres and abbeys to uncover the stories of Tudor England. From the famous palace at Hampton Court where dang …

Discharged in 2002 from the US Army under the provisions of “Don”t Ask, Don”t Tell, ” Alexander Nicholson was shocked to learn there was no group advocating DADT”s repeal that was reaching out t …

What will happen when international forces finally vacate Afghanistan? The answer to that question is unknown, but if there is any hope for Afghanistan, veteran journalist Peter Eichstaedt asserts, …

Minister Rafiq Hariri on 14 February 2005, was seen by many as an opportunity for Lebanon”s fragile political system to move towards a more stable form of democracy. But contrary to these …