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To write history is to consider how to explicate the past, to weigh the myriad possible approaches to the past, and to come to terms with how the past can be and has been used. In this book, prize-winning historian, Jeremy Black, considers both popular and academic approaches to the past. His focus is on the interaction between the presentation of the past and current circumstances, on how history is used to validate one view of the present or to discredit another, and on readings of the past that unite and those that divide.

What if there had been no World War I or no Russian Revolution? What if Napoleon had won at Waterloo in 1815, or if Martin Luther had not nailed his complaints to the church door at Wittenberg in 1517, or if the South had won the American Civil War? Black focuses on the role of counterfactualism in demonstrating the part of contingency, and thus human agency, in history, and the salutary critique the approach offers to determinist accounts of past, present, and future.

Passionate pioneers, emigrants, and soldiers, bravely follow their dreams for adventure and freedom. Their steadfast faith in God, and inherited strengths and courage, drive them to exhilarating experiences. Mary's Story: The Last of the Pioneers is a chronicle of events.

In Vigilantes and Lynch Mobs, Arellano closely examines such narratives as well as the work of western historian and archivist Hubert Howe Bancroft, who was sympathetic to them and that of Ida B. Wells, who wrote in fierce opposition to lynching. Tracing the creation, maintenance, and circulation of dominant, alternative, and oppositional vigilante stories from the 19th century frontier through the Jim Crow South, she casts new light on the role of narrative in creating a knowable past.

In the series' first volume, Interpreting American History: The Age of Andrew Jackson, experts on Jacksonian America address the changing views of historians over the past century on a watershed era in U.S. history. A two-term president of the United States, Jackson was a powerful leader who widened constitutional boundaries on the presidency, shaping policy himself instead of deferring to the wishes of Congress.

The life and death of Jim Jones and his followers in Jonestown still mystifies people to this day. "Drinking the Kool-Aid" became a famous metaphor for holding an unquestioned belief without critical examination. But was there a far more sinister play at hand than the official story revealed? This audiobook is a complete history of Jim Jones and People's Temple, with further analysis on what might have been the real cause of this tragedy.

Nasty, brutish, and short. This is the way English philosopher Thomas Hobbes described the living conditions into which humans inevitably fall without a strong, central authority. However, Hobbes would agree that living under a brutal dictator could lead to the same conditions. This exciting new book from historian Michael Rank looks at the lives and times of the worst dictators in history.

Throughout his career, Michael Fellman has explored the tragic side of American history. Best known for his work on the American Civil War and for an interdisciplinary methodology that utilizes social psychology, cultural anthropology, and comparative history, Fellman has delved into issues of domination, exploitation, political violence, racism, terrorism, and the experiences of war. Incorporating essays written over the past thirty years, this collection reveals some of the major personal and scholarly concerns of his career.

Reflecting on his career, Stephen E. Ambrose - one of the country's most influential historians - confronts America's failures and struggles as he explores both its moral and pragmatic triumphs. To America celebrates the men and women who invented the United States and made it exceptional.

Forged during the tumultuous but triumphant postwar years when America came of age as a world power, The Irony of American History is more relevant now than ever before. Cited by politicians as diverse as Hillary Clinton and John McCain, Niebuhr's masterpiece on the incongruity between personal ideals and political reality is both an indictment of American moral complacency and a warning against the arrogance of virtue.

In 1960, the Imperial War Museum began a momentous task. A team of academics, archivists and volunteers set about tracing ordinary men and women who had lived through one of the most harrowing periods of modern history, the First World War. Veterans were interviewed in details about their day-to-day experiences, on and off the front. The project has since grown to be the most important archive of its kind in the world, and provides a unique account of life during the Great War.

They built some of the first communal structures on the empire's frontiers. The empire's most powerful proconsuls sought entrance into their lodges. Their public rituals drew dense crowds from Montreal to Madras. The Ancient Free and Accepted Masons were quintessential builders of empire, argues Jessica Harland-Jacobs.

Von Kopf bis Fuß auf Liebe eingestellt? Flieger, grüß mir die Sonne! Was mit Euphorie begann, hörte sich bald ganz anders an: "Deutsch die Uhr, deutsch der Klang". Aus dem Deutschen Reich wird eine Diktatur, deren Gegner immer hemmungsloser vernichtet werden. Neben Originaltönen aus der Politik wie z. B. Auszügen aus den Hetzreden von Adolf Hitler und seinem Progagandaminister Joseph Goebbels, sind hier auch die mahnenden Stimmen von Erich Kästner, Otto Wels u. v. a. zu hören.

RAF, Energiekrise, Schlagerparade, Willy Brandts Kniefall in Warschau. In den 70er Jahren hatte der uneingeschränkte Konsum ein Ende, der Terrorismus wütete, Utopien wurden zerstört. Die heile Welt fand sich in Schlagern wieder, in Blumendekor und Schlaghosen. Und gleichzeitig beginnt in dieser Zeit die Entwicklung zu einem modernen Europa.

Beatlemania, Studentenunruhen, die erste Mondlandung. Eines kann man den 60er Jahren nicht nachsagen: dass Stillstand geherrscht hätte. Es waren die aufregendsten Jahre der Nachkriegszeit: Kalter Krieg zwischen Ost und West, Mauerbau zwischen BRD und DDR...

Was the Confederacy doomed from the start in its struggle against the superior might of the Union? Did its forces fight heroically against all odds for the cause of states’ rights? In reality, these suggestions are an elaborate and intentional effort on the part of Southerners to rationalize the secession and the war itself. Unfortunately, skillful propagandists have been so successful in promoting this romanticized view that the Lost Cause has assumed a life of its own.

Love-Parade und Teletubbies, "Blühende Landschaften" und Korruption, Mauerschützenprozesse und "Ostalgie-Welle". Das waren die 90er Jahre...

Ob Püppchen oder Powerfrau: Frauen wissen scheinbar nicht so recht, was sie eigentlich wollen. Wenn dann auch noch Männer mitreden, wird es wirklich kompliziert. So tobt er täglich, der Kampf der Geschlechter, und das seit über 100 Jahren. Ob in Werbung, Diskussionen, Hits und Filmen, Dorothee Meyer-Kahrweg und Hans Sarkowicz sind überall fündig geworden und haben die besten Originalaufnahmen der letzten Jahrzehnte zu einer so einzigartigen wie urkomischen Sammlung vereint.

Das neue Jahrhundert begann turbulent: Albert Einstein entwickelte seine Relativitätstheorie, Zeppeline erhoben sich in die Lüfte und Forscher drangen bis zum Nordpol vor. Doch die Euphorie wurde erschüttert, als 1912 das Wahrzeichen des Fortschritts, die Titanic, im Meer versank. Und mit der Ermordung des Erzherzogs Franz Ferdinand stürzte Europa schließlich in den Ersten Weltkrieg. Die ersten erhaltenen Originalaufnahmen des 20. Jahrhunderts hat die Redakteurin Dorothee Meyer-Kahrweg ausfindig gemacht und zu einem beeindruckenden Hörbild zusammengestellt.

Goggo-Mobil und Nierentisch, Sissi und "Grün ist die Heide". Das waren die 50er Jahre. Jahre des Neuanfangs, des Wirtschaftswunders, der Sehnsucht nach Elvis und Coca-Cola...