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A full-color photo history of 1966 that explores everyday American life, culture, breakthroughs, and world events. Open the Time Capsule and step back into 1966! Across 190+ pages with 235 photos, vintage ads, and illustrations, this book is your time machine into a golden year for the United States. The Time Capsule books deliver history as a conversation with a knowledgeable friend, with the pace and visual energy of a fun magazine, and the substance of an engaging history book.

Them Days is a quarterly magazine dedicated to documenting and preserving the old ways and early days of Labrador. Many thanks to the people who shared their time and memories, their names appear with their stories...

What happens when a society values achievement more than thought? In The Intellectual Life, Harold E. Stearns examines the forces that shaped America's complicated relationship with ideas, culture, and independent thought. Tracing the American mindset from its pioneer roots, Stearns explores how...

Planning a trip to Rhode Island but not sure where to start? Looking for more than just another list of attractions? Exploring Rhode Island-A Journey Through History & Must-See Destinations is your complete travel companion to America’s Ocean State, combining fascinating history with practical travel inspiration to help you experience one of New England’s most rewarding destinations. Although Rhode Island is the smallest state in the United States, it offers an incredible variety of experiences.

On a graduation day in Miami, a young man waits for his name to be called. Around him, families gather. Applause rises. A ceremony moves forward in the ordinary rhythm of endings and beginnings. But some moments carry more than they appear to. Beneath this one lives a story generations in the making a story of exile and return, silence and memory, faith and reinvention, names preserved, questions unanswered, and patterns that move through families long before anyone knows how to name them.

For generations, many Americans first encountered Puritan New England through Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter. Its unforgettable story of shame, secrecy, hypocrisy, and moral judgment became more than a literary classic. For countless listeners, it also became the defining picture of an entire civilization. But how closely did Hawthorne’s fictional world resemble the society he portrayed?

Lincoln : Dans ses propres mots comprend ses réflexions sur sa vie et sur son époque. Cela inclut ses cinq discours les plus célèbres : La Maison Divisée, l'Éloge funèbre d'Henry Clay, ses deux Discours d'investiture, et le Discours de Gettysburg, ainsi que la Proclamation d'émancipation...

From old Easter traditions, to close calls in planes, caribou and moonshine: Enjoy seniors and storytellers share about life in Labrador back in 'Them Days...

Brought to you by Altrusian Grace Media and human-narrated by Matthew Schmitz. Curious Punishments of Bygone Days by Alice Morse Earle is a fascinating historical survey of the unusual, often humiliating punishments once used in colonial and early American communities. Drawing on court records, town histories, diaries, and other period sources, Earle describes devices and penalties such as the stocks, pillory, whipping post, ducking stool, branding, public cages, scarlet letters, and other forms of corporal punishment and public disgrace.

Bloomsbury presents Hot Type, written and read by Jeff Jarvis. Hot Type is the epic story of the magnificent 19th-century machine that rendered Gutenberg’s movable type obsolete and opened the portal to the long century of mass media. The Linotype mechanized the 400-year-old process of setting...

Tony’s story has resonated far beyond the firehouse—he was even featured as a guest on the popular podcast “This Past Weekend with Theo Von,” where his unforgettable stories captivated millions of listeners. In this gripping and occasionally scandalous memoir, veteran New York City firefighter Tony Bonfiglio takes listeners on a remarkable journey through his 21-year career, offering a raw and unfiltered look at life on the frontlines of one of the world's most dangerous professions.

The story of young advertising executive and his trials and tribulations as he was promoted through the ranks, which landed him in New York City. The pinnacle of advertising in the modern day.

The A-10 is the Air Force's unlikely success story, an airplane designed to support the Army, and one that ground troops came to venerate. Originally conceived with the express purpose of destroying Soviet tanks, the Air Force only developed it to keep funding away from the Army’s response to...

The untold story of how America's declaration of independence hinged on seven critical months in 1776 and the courageous votes that changed the world forever. This gripping account reveals the precarious path to American independence through a series of pivotal dates that history has nearly...

From President Cleveland’s alleged love child to the UFO highway, Idaho Myths and Legends of makes history fun and pulls back the curtain on some of the Gem State’s most fascinating and compelling stories...

Behind the gates of Camp David—where presidents find solitude, forge diplomacy, and shape history in absolute secrecy. The Presidential Retreat Camp David is shrouded in mystery, and rightfully so. The hidden retreat atop the Catoctin Mountains is the one place the President, First Family, and...

True Tales from the Great Lakes State’s Past—from the pageant of the Sault to a World Series that healed wounds Michigan is one-of-a-kind. America’s only two-part state, with dual peninsulas, it has been host to a medley of cultures. And, while these cultures have not always coexisted...

Based on over twenty years of original archival research, this history unfolds a nearly day-by-day narrative of the Salem Witch Trials as the citizens of Salem experienced the outbreak of hysteria...

An updated, penetrating, and balanced analysis of one of the most contentious issues in America today, offering a historically informed portrait of immigration. Americans have come from every corner of the globe, and they have been brought together by a variety of historical processes—conquest...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. What if the first step toward freedom were learning the power of a single word? In *Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave*, Frederick Douglass gives one of the most important first-person testimonies in American literature...