history

A collection of speeches, memos, and other archival material that reveal how the American government would have handled historic moments that almost happened, but didn't.

Traces the development of primitive societies showing why some groups advanced more rapidly than others and how this progression explains why various populations stabilize at specific phases of development while others continue to evolve.

Archival photographs and text profile the Wright brothers and their pioneering first flight.

Chronicles three seventeenth-century British explorers' attempts to locate the cinchna tree, the only known source of quinine, and transport it from Peru to England in the hopes of using it to develop a cure for malaria.

Explores the history of weather and weather science, provides a chronicle catastrophic weather events from c. 3200 B.C. to 2003, features a chronology of meteorological discovery, and includes weather data, and a glossary.

Presents eighteen essays on Communism's founders, its rise in Russia, Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe, and its political, social, and cultural impacts, and includes a collection of primary source documents, a chronology, and a bibliography.

Presents opposing arguments about the Berlin crisis, the Berlin Wall's construction, and its fall, and includes an introduction, a chronology, and a further reading list.