Títulos en Histórico

Ten Years from Slavery: The Story of Bishop William Edward Fuller, Sr. is a powerful and inspiring historical audiobook that traces the extraordinary rise of a Black religious pioneer whose life helped shape American spiritual and social history. Written and narrated by his grandchildren, this intimate family memoir brings authenticity, warmth, and lived experience to a story that spans Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and the early Civil Rights Movement.

من فضلك خمس دقائق.. فأصبحت الدقائق الخمس ستة وعشرين شهرًا!، الشرق شرق والغرب غرب ولن يلتقيا، هذا الكلام ليس تحاملًا على الغرب أو غير الغرب ؛ لأن الواقع والحال وما يجري وما يقال وسمعه كل من كان له قلب أو ألقى السمع وهو شهيد ينبئ عما يقال.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the #1 national bestseller Cleopatra unpacks the mystery of the Salem Witch Trials. “The Witches is the fullest and finest story ever told about Salem in 1692, and no one else could tell it with the otherworldly flair of Stacy Schiff.” ―Joseph J. Ellis...

A Black porter publicly whips a White English gentleman in a Gloucestershire manor house. A heavily pregnant African woman is abandoned on an Indonesian island by Sir Francis Drake. A Mauritanian diver is dispatched to salvage lost treasures from the Mary Rose.... Miranda Kaufmann reveals the absorbing stories of some of the Africans who lived free in Tudor England.

In this gripping biography, acclaimed author Harlow Giles Unger paints an intimate portrait of the heroic young French soldier who, at 19, renounced a life of luxury in Paris and Versailles to fight and bleed for liberty - at Brandywine, Valley Forge, and Yorktown. A major general in the Continental army, he quickly earned the love of his troops, his fellow commanders, and his commander in chief, George Washington, who called him his "adopted son".

In 1978, the bloody conflict in Northern Ireland, known as The Troubles, had reached a boiling point. Hundreds of members of the Irish Republican Army, determined to drive the hated British out of the province—killing soldiers and police, detonating bombs, while arming themselves with firearms and explosives—had been arrested and incarcerated in the notorious British prison known as the Maze.

Mercy Otis Warren (1728-1814), America’s first woman playwright and historian, was the fiery wife of a Massachusetts patriot and the mother of five sons who secretly authored influential anti-British plays that helped spark the American Revolution.

Robert Smalls’ life illustrates what can happen when one is freed from the fetters of others’ estimations. Smalls’ metamorphosis from slave to ship pilot to U.S. Congressman displays the power of fiery determination and unrelenting ambition. News of Smalls’ incredible exploit made it all the way up to Lincoln, who eventually met him and asked why he would dare such a thing. Smalls replied with only one word: ‘Freedom.

Mit detektivischem Spürsinn wird in diesem Buch die Lebensgeschichte der Frau an Hitlers Seite rekonstruiert, die aus einem kleinbürgerlichen Haushalt bis in den inneren Zirkel des NS-Machthabers führte und einen Tag nach der Hochzeit im Berliner «Führerbunker» mit dem gemeinsamen Selbstmord am 30. April 1945 endete. Welche Rolle spielte die Geliebte in Hitlers privatem Kreis? Über wie viel Einfluss verfügte sie? Und was wussten sie und die anderen Frauen der NS-Führer über die Verbrechen ihrer Männer?

Willy Beckel beschreibt in seinen Erinnerungen viele Aspekte des Alltags, die für ein Kinder- und Jugendleben – während des Deutschen Kaiserreiches – in den Jahren um 1912 prägend waren. Sie bleiben immer noch spannend zu lesen, beschreiben sie doch eine längst vergangene Welt mit weiterhin aktuellen Bezügen. Das Leben einer städtischen Großfamilie, meist im Mittelpunkt stehend, wird in dieser Hommage an seine Eltern so manches Großereignis in Leipzig während der Kaiserzeit aber nicht ausgelassen.

The dramatic, absolutely outrageous story of Caroline of Brunswick, a beloved icon of the Regency era, who uplifted the voice of the public and unabashedly defied society’s expectations, yet was shockingly robbed of her crown, from the host of the Vulgar History podcast. Caroline Amelia...

From the bestselling and award-winning author of ‘An English Affair’, a dazzlingly original thematic biography which throws fresh light on the greatest economist of the twentieth century. John Maynard Keynes saved Britain from financial crisis twice over the course of two World Wars, and...

Di Hitler si dice che fosse "magnetico". Di Goring che fosse un valoroso pilota. Di Goebbels che fosse un demagogo straordinario. Di Heydrich che fosse un provetto schermidore, un eccellente pilota e un ottimo musicista. Nessuno è mai riuscito a trovare niente di speciale in Himmler, non un solo momento di carisma e umanità in tutta la sua esistenza. Lucas Pavetto: nato in Argentina, si trasferisce in giovane età. Manifesta sin dalla più tenera infanzia una spiccata attitudine per la musica e le arti figurative.

A fresh look at the endlessly fascinating Tudors - the dramatic and overlooked story of Henry VII and his founding of the Tudor Dynasty - filled with spies, plots, counter-plots, and an uneasy royal succession to Henry VIII. Near the turn of the sixteenth century, England had been ravaged for decades by conspiracy and civil war. Henry Tudor clambered to the top of the heap, a fugitive with a flimsy claim to England’s crown who managed to win the throne and stay on it for 24 years.

Admiral Lord Collingwood, the eldest son of a Newcastle merchant, went to sea in 1761 at the age of 13. In his nearly fifty years in the Navy Collingwood's service took him to Boston, where he lived and fought during the American War of Independence; to Antigua, where he and Nelson both fell in love with Mary Moutray; to Corsica; Sicily; and Menorca, where he ended his career as the effective viceroy of the Mediterranean.

Sin duda, un icono distintivo en la historia contracultural mundial y el símbolo de toda una época de ideología socialista que desde mediados del siglo XX, dividió al planeta. Guerrillero, político, escritor y médico, Guevara fue uno de las máximas figuras que lideraron la famosa Revolución Cubana y un hombre que inmortalizó el "guevarismo”, ideario marxista que sedujo a miles.

In this authoritative and engrossing full-scale biography, Walter Isaacson, bestselling author of Einstein and Steve Jobs, shows how the most fascinating of America's founders helped define our national character. Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us, the one who seems made...

It is astonishing that Simón Bolívar, the great Liberator of South America, is not better known in the United States. He freed six countries from Spanish rule, traveled more than 75,000 miles on horseback to do so, and became the greatest figure in Latin American history. His life is epic, heroic, straight out of Hollywood: he fought battle after battle in punishing terrain, forged uncertain coalitions of competing forces and races, lost his beautiful wife soon after they married and died relatively young, uncertain whether his achievements would endure.

St. Paul is known throughout the world as the first Christian writer, authoring fourteen of the twenty-seven books in the New Testament. But as Karen Armstrong demonstrates in St. Paul: The Apostle We Love to Hate, he also exerted a more significant influence on the spread of Christianity throughout the world than any other figure in history.

JFK's Secret Doctor tells a thrilling story of adventure and a historic medical career. Set against the grand panorama of 20th century world events, it captures the remarkable life and spirit of climber and medical visionary Hans Kraus (1905–1996). Kraus was taught English by writer James Joyce, escaped Nazi-dominated Europe, and was JFK's secret back specialist.