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This powerful memoir about a Hmong family's epic journey to safety is a profound "testament to the miraculous strength of women and the indomitable resolve of the human spirit" (Cris

"Historian Charney tracks the eventful life of the Mona Lisa in this rollicking account....

In the predawn hours of a gloomy February day in 1994, two thieves entered the National Gallery in Oslo and made off with one of the world's most famous paintings, Edvard Munch's Scream.

Aujourd'hui, on a marqué l'histoire. Aujourd'hui, il y a beaucoup de Québécois qui ont mis de côté un débat qui nous a divisés depuis 50 ans.

Depuis des siècles, l'Asie du Sud-Est constitue un carrefour de cultures, de commerce et de religions.

Les « années 1968 » se caractérisent par une forte résurgence des nationalismes minoritaires, des régionalismes protestataires et des aspirations autochtones dans le monde occidental – de la Bretag

L'avenir du passé présente les résultats d'une vaste enquête sur la mémoire et la conscience historique du Canada français au sein de la jeunesse francophone du Québec et de l'Ontario.

In 1939, a horrific triple murder occurred in Oklahoma. As pressure mounted to find a villain, prosecutors settled on a black farmer named W. D.

In December of 1943, a group of highly trained US and Canadian soldiers capture a crucial Nazi stronghold perched atop stunningly steep cliffs.

This account of one mountain man's life at the height of the nineteenth-century fur industry follows Rose as he overcomes adversity, learns from those around him, and becomes one of the most succes

In 1943, amidst the start of German occupation, Eddy de Wind worked as a doctor at Westerbork, a Dutch transit camp.

By 1941, Winston Churchill had come to believe that the outcome of World War II rested on the battle for the Atlantic.

The prominent journalist, author, and historian of some of the most pivotal events of the twentieth century describes a post-Hitler world, including the McCarthy years and its blacklists.

An acclaimed historian gives voice to the thousands of women from different backgrounds, races, and religions whose local passion and protest resounded throughout the land.

When Habiburahman was three years old, he became stateless in his own country when Burma's military leader declared that his people, the Rohingya, were not recognized as one of the eight "national