Genre: History (26 books)

The Second World War

Winston S. Churchill

The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences

Michel Foucault

Popol Vuh

Anonymous

The Education of Henry Adams

Henry Adams

Under the shadow of Boston State House, turning its back on the house of John Hancock, the little passage called Hancock Avenue runs, or ran, from Beacon Street, skirting the State House grounds, to Mount Vernon Street, on the summit of Beacon Hill; and there, in the third house below Mount Vernon Place, February 16, 1838, a child was born, and christened later by his uncle, the minister of the First Church after the tenets of Boston Unitarianism, as Henry Brooks Adams.

Eminent Victorians

Lytton Strachey

The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it.

An evil cradling

Brian Keenan