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The long fight for the vote — the women who changed American democracy forever.

How FDR rebuilt America — the programmes, the politics and the legacy of the New Deal.

The real men behind the myth — the lives, ideals and contradictions of America's Founding Fathers.

From Rosa Parks to the March on Washington — the history of America's Civil Rights Movement.

La série des podcasts “Prises de parole publiques” est basée sur la collection des études de cas du même nom. À l’instar des études, elle examine les contraintes, questionnements, dilemmes et controverses concernant les prises de parole publiques auxquels Médecins Sans Frontières a été confrontée au cours de son histoire. Ceux-ci sont restitués à travers des extraits de documents d’archives et d'articles de presse. Des extraits d’entretiens avec les protagonistes de MSF éclairent également les analyses sur les positions prises à l’époque des événements. Les ...

From the crash of 1929 to the New Deal — the human story of America's darkest economic era.

From Sputnik to the Moon — the Cold War rivalry that took humanity to the stars.

Silly and fun verses beginning with the lesser known Robert J. Shores and going on to the more known Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, and W.S. Gilbert. - Summary by David Wales

History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria is the masterwork of one of the fathers of modern Egyptology. This work, in twelve volumes, was translated from the French original, “Histoire ancienne des peuples de l'Orient classique” by E. L. McClure and published in 1903-1904. Maspero was a largely self-taught master of hieroglyphic translation. In November 1880, he was placed at the head of a French archeological mission, which developed later into the Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale. Maspero then succeeded Mariette as director-general of excavations and of the ...

The final section of Poems of American History covers The Reconstruction after the Civil War, the First Centennial, the continued expansion westward, the assasination of Garfield, The Spanish American War, and World War I. Poets in this volume include: John Greenleaf Whittier, Bret Harte, Oliver Wendell Holmes, William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Wallace Rice, Vachel Lindsay, Joyce Kilmer, and many more. - Summary by Ed Humpal

This book provides the history of one of the most renowned emperors of all time. The Great Khan. This was a man born Temujin to a clan leader father who was later poisoned. The family was left unprotected and without power to fend for themselves on the Eurasian Steppe. Genghis later rose to power and founded the Mongol Empire, one of the largest in all of history. Despite his great achievement and ferocious reputation there is much we do not know of him, even what he looked like. Historians state that there is not a single portrait of the man that survives to the present day. All current ...

Brock Purdy Biography Flash is the podcast that takes you deep inside one of the greatest underdog stories in NFL history. From a small town kid in Queen Creek, Arizona, inspired by Tim Tebow at the age of five, to the last pick in the entire 2022 NFL Draft, to franchise record-holder and Super Bowl quarterback, Brock Purdy's journey is unlike anything professional football has ever seen. This show covers every chapter of that remarkable rise, exploring the family roots, the high school dominance, the Iowa State years, and the moment the world labeled him Mister Irrelevant, only to watch him ...

Zeitspuren ist ein Geschichtspodcast, der dich direkt in vergangene Momente eintauchen lässt. Ohne lange Einleitung beginnst du jede Folge mitten im Geschehen – du stehst auf Schlachtfeldern, in Palästen oder an Wendepunkten der Weltgeschichte. Du hörst nicht nur, was passiert ist, sondern erlebst, wie es sich angefühlt hat. Kurz, intensiv und bildhaft erzählt: Geschichte, die bleibt. Jeden Samstag (oder öfter) eine neue Folge.

As we get older, many of us return to youthful memories of poems once significant to us. Outside their association with our youth, we may wonder what significance they have to us now. There were other poems we've met along the way as well: some held no appeal while others were forgotten. And there were others we never had the opportunity to meet. This selection hopes to go beyond the experience of meeting old friends and on top opening the door to new ones — poems that might relate more significantly to our current lives. Originally titled "Personal Poems for Later Years," this collection ...

History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria is the masterwork of one of the fathers of modern egyptology. This work, in twelve volumes, was translated from the French original, “Histoire ancienne des peuples de l'Orient classique” and published in 1903-1904. Maspero was a largely self-taught master of hieroglyphic translation. In November 1880, he was placed at the head of a French archeological mission, which developed later into the Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale. Maspero then succeeded Mariette as director-general of excavations and of the antiquities of ...

This collection recognizes Black History Month, February 2007. Two excellent resources for public domain African American writing are African American Writers (Bookshelf) and The Book of American Negro Poetry, edited by James Weldon Johnson. Johnson's collection inspired the Harlem Renaissance generation to establish a firm African-American literary tradition in the United States. (Summary by Alan)

A short monograph devoted to the Babylonian flood myth and the Epic of Gilgamesh (Standard Babylonian version), dating from the 7th century BC, as found on the clay tablets of the Royal Library of Ashurbanipal at the ancient site of Nineveh, capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. The book includes a description of the library and an account of its discovery. The narratives are conveyed through a combination of verbatim translation and paraphrase. The text contains eighteen illustrations. - Summary by Kazbek

The first volume of a 3 volume anthology, this work focuses on American short stories and draws from Nathaniel Hawthorne, Anna Katherine Greene, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe and many other favorites. Topics range from historical to science fiction, melodramatic to philosophic. (Summary by Lynne Thompson)

George P. Baker explores the life of Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix, known more commonly as Sulla. Sulla was a Roman general and statesman of the Late Republic in Rome, and was head of the optimates in an explosive period in Roman history. In the years of conflict between the optimates and the populares, Sulla revived the office of dictator, and used his powers to remove key leaders of his opposition. Baker considers Sulla's life among one of the crucial episodes on history, with particular importance to readers of his day. (Summary by Mark Harrington)

George P. Baker, popular British historian of the 1920s and 30s, covers the life and career of ancient Rome's most formidable opponent, Hannibal of Carthage. Beginning with an overview of the rise of Carthage and Rome's first conflict with that power, he describes Hannibal's life and his campaign in the Second Punic War. After crossing the Alps and invading Italy from the north, Hannibal masterminded several massive victories on the Italian peninsula which came close to crippling Rome. Through the foresight and skills of Quintus Fabius Maximus, and later Publius Scipio, Hannibal and Carthage ...