For some time the Commission Internationale pour l’Histoire des Villes has been working actively on the comprehensive topic of urban space which is...

The story of the USS Missouri, one of America's most famous warships of the twentieth century, and the world's last battleship, is told from her in...

As lead ship of America’s first “fast battleship” class, and the US Navy’s newest battleship when America entered WWII, the construction of the USS...

In recent years, much has been written on how the moral meaning and significance of the Holocaust has been appropriated in popular and political di...

Of all the personalities associated with Anne Frank, the most important figure, without whom Anne Frank would never have been able to write her dia...

Every one of us has a story to tell, yet writing is often such a daunting task that most people never get around to starting their memoirs -- let a...

A recent series of terrorist attacks, the uncovering of a large terrorist network, and a string of continuing regional conflicts have raised an awa...

This is a collection of articles about some of the great Jewish heroes of modern times. The book is a collage of role-models and inspiring makers o...

A line of nervous young women got off a ship in Victoria Harbour in 1862 and had to walk the gauntlet between two rows of jostling, eager men. One ...

This is perhaps the best available description of the tools, materials, technology, and process of wagon-making in the US during the late pre-autom...

Where did passports come from? Why did 1930s stewardesses carry wrenches? And how did teetotalers shape the modern vacation? Wanderlust answers the...

Although he died at the age of thirty-two, Randolph Bourne (1886-1918) left a body of writing on politics, culture, and literature that made him on...

Although he died at the age of thirty-two, Randolph Bourne (1886-1918) left a body of writing on politics, culture, and literature that made him on...

This book is an overview of the war in Afghanistan; strategy, military operations and issues for Congress. As the 111th Congress convenes and the O...

An engrossing saga that adds significantly to the body of Holocaust literature. Abraham H Foxman, National Director, Anti-Defamation League. Abrash...

"To oppose the military machine means to accept the possibility that one may be destroyed by it." – Archibald Baxter. We Will Not Cease is the unfl...

Manchester's Free Trade Hall was arguably the most important popular music venue in Great Britain between 1951 and 1996. After several incarnations...

In this volume on the history of the European nobility in the modern era, the boundary between the early modern and 'real' modern periods around 18...

This captivating volume brings together case studies drawn from four post-Soviet states—Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldova. The collected papers...

Did you know that the great Jewish sage and physician Maimonides practiced medicine while lying flat on his back? That a famous passage penned by G...

This is an account of one woman's Holocaust survival and painful postwar years spent forging an adult identity out of the splinters of a girlhood d...

"A visitor from down south stared at my apple tree and said: 'Those don't grow here you know. It's too cold.' If the apricot tree in Highlands knew...