History

History (from Greek ἱστορία - historia, meaning "inquiry, knowledge acquired by investigation") is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians. It is a field of research which uses a narrative to examine and analyse the sequence of events, and it sometimes attempts to investigate objectively the patterns of cause and effect that determine events. Historians debate the nature of history and its usefulness. This includes discu ...more

A Flower Traveled in My Blood: The Incredible True Story of the Grandmothers Who Fought to Find a Stolen Generation of Children
Midnight on the Potomac: The Last Year of the Civil War, the Lincoln Assassination, and the Rebirth of America
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The Beast in the Clouds: The Roosevelt Brothers' Deadly Quest to Find the Mythical Giant Panda
Strata: Stories from Deep Time
Monopoly X: How Top-Secret World War II Operations Used the Game of Monopoly to Help Allied POWs Escape, Conceal Spies, and Send Secret Codes
A Year with the Seals: Unlocking the Secrets of the Sea's Most Charismatic and Controversial Creatures
The Road That Made America: A Modern Pilgrim's Journey on the Great Wagon Road
Will Eisner: A Comics Biography
The Man Who Would Be King: Mohammed bin Salman and the Transformation of Saudi Arabia
Together in Manzanar: The True Story of a Japanese Jewish Family in an American Concentration Camp
The Hiroshima Men: The Birth of the Atomic Bomb and the Dawning of the Age of Mutually Assured Destruction
The Origin of Language: How We Learned to Speak and Why
Three Revolutions: Russia, China, Cuba and the Epic Journeys that Changed the World
The Great Museum of the Sea: A Human History of Shipwrecks
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    The History of Money: A Story of Humanity

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    Hurricane Helene - Part One: Resiliency After the Storm

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    One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.
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