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Since 1970 in Quebec, there has been immense change for the Cree, who now live with the consequences of Quebec's massive development of the North.

With her linen head scarf and white apron emblazoned with a red cross, the Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse, or VAD, has become a romantic emblem of the Great War.

Following Mao Zedong’s Anti-Rightist Campaign of 1957–58, Chinese intellectuals were subjected to “re-education” by the state.

The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin radically altered the future of both Israel and the Palestinians.

This book takes us back to 1952, when no one could foresee an end to Joseph Stalin's murderous regime.

The Chicago Defender condemned Jim Crow and focused the electoral power of black America.

At midday on May 4, 1970, members of the Ohio National Guard launched a sixty-seven-shot barrage that left four Kent State students dead and nine wounded.

Tells the stories of women pioneers who endured unimaginable hardships to settle the West.

Bill Fawcett offers a compendium of 101 all-new mammoth mistakes--from the ill-fated rule of Emperor Darius III to the equally ill-fated search for WMDs in Iraq--that will, unfortunately, never be

The story of two incredible, intimidating Civil War machines: the Merrimack and Monitor.

Eye-witness accounts describe the deadly cat-and-mouse game between British battleships and one of Germany's largest World War II battleships.

A big-picture history that examines the Six Day War, its causes, and its enduring consequences against its global context

A collection of radio dramatizations of events from world history produced for the radio program CBS is There, You Are There, which originally aired between 1947 and 1950.

The thirty-year golden age of piracy stretched into the early eighteenth century.

In a new edition featuring updates throughout, this compact yet comprehensive history brings alive Greek civilization from its Stone Age roots to the fourth century BC.