In 1948, most white people in the North had no idea how unjust life was for the ten million African Americans living in the South. But that suddenly changed after Ray Sprigle, a white journalist from Pittsburgh, went undercover and lived as a black man in the Jim Crow South.
Relying on firsthand accounts, historian Jane Hampton Cook weaves together several different narratives to create a vivid, multidimensional account of the 1814 burning of Washington, including the escalation that led to it and the immediate aftermath.
In August 1776, George Washington found his troops outmanned at the Battle of Brooklyn. But thanks to a single heroic regiment, he was able to evacuate his men. Bestselling historian Patrick K. O'Donnell brings to life the forgotten story of this remarkable band of brothers.
This volume surveys the chain of events that wrenched Europe out of the Enlightenment and into the age of democracy. In this masterful work, listeners will encounter the French Revolution and its leaders, Napoleon's meteoric rise and fall, and the birth of Romanticism.
In the Heart of the Sea brings to new life the incredible story of the wreck of the whaleship Essex. In a harrowing page-turner, Nathaniel Philbrick restores this epic story to its rightful place in American history.
This volume centers on the passionate rebel--philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Rousseau condemned civilization as a disease, glorified the noble savage, and became the patron saint of the worldwide social upheavals of two centuries.
This volume presents an in-depth examination of France and England in the first half of the eighteenth century. In this masterful work, listeners will encounter the salons of Paris, the philosophes, Voltaire himself, and more.
From the bestselling author of Flags of Our Fathers, this spellbinding history of turbulent US-China relations from the nineteenth century to World War II and Mao's ascent explores a difficult century that defines US-Chinese relations to this day.
Peter Ackroyd, one of Britain's most acclaimed writers, brings the age of the Tudors to vivid life in this monumental book in his History of England series, charting the course of English history from Henry VIII's cataclysmic break with Rome to the epic rule of Elizabeth I.
This volume chronicles the history of European civilization from 1648 to 1715. Listeners will encounter the tumultuous rule of the Louis XIV, the artists and leaders of England, the reign of Peter the Great in Russia, and more.
