History

Author(s): Richard PrestonDownload   Description:  A highly infectious, deadly virus from the central African rain forest suddenly appears in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. There is no cure. In a few days 90 percent...

Author(s): Frederick DouglassDownload   Description:  Some Reviews: 3728 in Goodreads.com Richard rated it       This book is not an important historical document to be placed in a glass case and venerated during Black History Month. It should be...

Author(s): David McCulloughDownload   Description:  In this masterful book, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence - when...

Author(s): Ta-Nehisi CoatesDownload   Description:  For Ta-Nehisi Coates, history has always been personal. At every stage of his life, he's sought in his explorations of history answers to the mysteries that surrounded him --...

Author(s): Lawrence HillDownload   Description:  Based on a true story, "The Book of Negroes" tells the story of Aminata, a young girl abducted from her village in Mali aged 11 in 1755, and who,...

Author(s): Yuval Noah HarariDownload   Description:  100,000 years ago, at least six human species inhabited the earth. Today there is just one. Us. Homo sapiens. How did our species succeed in the battle for...

Author(s): Niccolò MachiavelliDownload   Description:  Machiavelli needs to be looked at as he really was. Hence: Can Machiavelli, who makes the following observations, be Machiavellian as we understand the disparaging term? 1. So it...

Author(s): Dee BrownDownload   Description:  Now a special 30th-anniversary edition in both hardcover and paperback, the classic bestselling history The New York Times called "Original, remarkable, and finally heartbreaking...Impossible to put down."Bury My Heart...

Author(s): Jung ChangDownload   Description:  The story of three generations in twentieth-century China that blends the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history—a bestselling classic in thirty languages with more than...

Author(s): Marcus AureliusDownload   Description:  Written in Greek, without any intention of publication, by the only Roman emperor who was also a philosopher, the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) offer a remarkable series...