Regional og nasjonal historie

Regarded as perhaps the greatest of the stately homes and the finest example of baroque architecture in Great Britain, Blenheim is a treasure of English heritage. In this stunning …

The two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning historian draws on personal correspondence and period diaries to present a landmark history of the American Revolution that ranges from the …

De første stegene på vei mot vår egen art, Homo sapiens, ble tatt i Afrika for sju–åtte millioner år siden. Ikke i noen annen verdensdel har mennesker levd like lenge, og vi kan …

Nytt og helhetlig blikk på vikingtiden av en av de største autoritetene på feltet. Tradisjonelt regnes vikingtiden fra år 793, da vikinger angrep klosteret i Lindisfarne, til …

Few gave tiny Singapore much chance of survival when it was granted independence in 1965. How is it, then, that today the former British colonial trading post is a thriving Asian …

Presents profiles of the captains of industry who ruled America after the Civil War including Carnegie, Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, and Gould

A definitive reframing of the economic, institutional, and intellectual history of the managerial eraThe twentieth century was the managerial century in the United States. An …

The Golden Age of Ancient Egypt comes alive as Guillemette Andreu recreates the details of daily life. Construction sites teem with workers building the Great Pyramids and the …

It is the tragedy of Queen Mary that today, 450 years after her death, she remains the most hated, least understood monarch in English history--remembered best for burning hundreds …

Under 2. verdenskrig var det nærmere 40 000 nordmenn som fikk personlige erfaringer med innsiden av nazistenes fengsler, fangeleirer og konsentrasjonsleirer. De ble arrestert på …