Byron Hollinshead
Twenty Historians Bring to Life the Dramatic Events That Changed America I Wish I'd Been There brings together twenty of our most distinguished historians' responses to the question "What scene or incident in American history would you most liked ... [... more]
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Hugh Thomas
Hugh Thomas is the author of numerous works of history, including From one of the greatest historians of the Spanish world, here is a fresh and fascinating account of Spain's early conquests in the Americas. Hugh Thomas's magisterial narrative of ... [... more]
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Patrick Collinson
The religious reformations of the sixteenth century were the crucible of modern Western civilization, profoundly reshaping the identity of Europe's emerging nation-states. In The Reformation, one of the preeminent historians of the period, ... [... more]
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History on Trial
Since 1966 Gary B. Nash has taught American history at UCLA, where he has received a Distinguished Teaching Award and a Faculty Research Lecturer Award. During 1994-95 he served as President of the Organization of American Historians. In 1997 he ... [... more]
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J.D.A. Widdowson
As long ago as the 1720s, Daniel Defoe wrote about the eccentricities of English dialects. To historians the dialects used in the Yorkshire Dales and rural East Anglia are as important in understanding the living heritage of Britain as the study ... [... more]
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Michael Kammen
Michael Kammen, the Newton C. Farr Professor of American History and Culture at Cornell University, is a past president of the Organization of American Historians. He is the author or editor of numerous works, including People of Paradox: An ... [... more]
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Lynne Rossetto Kasper
For more than twenty years, James Beard Award winner LYNNE ROSSETTO KASPER has been recognized as one of America's leading food authorities, commentators, and cultural historians. The national radio show she co-created and hosts, The Splendid ... [... more]
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John Burrow
Epics, Chronicles, Romances and Inquiries from Herodotus and Thucydides to the Twentieth Century This unprecedented book by one of Britain's most admired historians describes the intellectual impact that the study and consideration of history has ... [... more]
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Sandra Benjamin
Tourists, armchair travelers, and historians will all delight in this fluid narrative that can be read straight through, dipped into over time, or used as a reference guide to each period in Sicily's fascinating tale. Emigration of people from ... [... more]
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Christina Hardyment
Christina Hardyment read history at Newnham College, Cambridge, and has twice held the Alistair Horne Historians' Writing Fellowship at St. Antony's College, Oxford. She is a writer and broadcaster with wide interests, and lives in Oxford, England. [... more]
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