historians

Anaximander, a student historian applying for entrance to the Academy, the institution that governs the Republic, a closed and isolated island society established late in the twenty-first century as a refuge from worldwide plague, prepares a thesis on Adam Forde, a rebel who on one occasion refused to shoot a young woman approaching the island in a boat, and unwittingly reveals her own tendencies for unconventional thought.

The author recounts the discoveries, hardships, and triumphs of his early life and the influences that shaped him as a person and writer.

College dean and prominent historian Jean Sheridan heads to her hometown of Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, where she is slated to be honored at her twenty-year class reunion, not realizing she is the target of a former classmate who has concocted a plan to get even with all the people who tortured him as a youth.

A Yale history professor travels back in time to 15th century France and gets stuck, unable to return to the present. His colleagues organize a rescue and on landing in France become involved in the Hundred Years War.

Simple text and illustrations describe the life and accomplishments of Carter G. Woodson, the man who first pioneered the study of black history.

A graphic adaptation of Howard Zinn's revisionist history of the United States, chronicling events from 1492 to the War on Terror from the perspective of African-Americans, women, Native Americans, and poor laborers of all nationalities, who have been politically and economically exploited.

William E. Dodd becomes the American ambassador to Germany, where he witnesses first-hand the atrocities of Hitler's regime and watches his daughter fall in love with a Nazi officer.

Presents the life story of Mari Sandoz, born on the sandhills of Nebraska in 1896, telling how her life changed when, at the age of nine, she began attending school, and discussing how she fulfilled her dream of researching and writing the history of the Great Plains.

Anaximander, a student historian applying for entrance to the Academy, the institution that governs the Republic, a closed and isolated island society established late in the twenty-first century as a refuge from worldwide plague, prepares a thesis on Adam Forde, a rebel who on one occasion refused to shoot a young woman approaching the island in a boat, and unwittingly reveals her own tendencies for unconventional thought.

Both a memoir and a popular history of the United States during the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, and the Nixon era from the eyes of historian Howard Zinn.