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Two-time Pulitzer Prize - winning historian Barbara Tuchman explores the complex relationship of Britain to Palestine that led to the founding of the modern Jewish state - and to many of the problems that plague the Middle East today.

Master historian Barbara W. Tuchman looks at history in a unique way and draws lessons from what she sees. This accessible introduction to the subject of history offers striking insights into America's past and present, trenchant observations on the international scene, and thoughtful pieces on the historian's role. Here is a splendid body of work, the story of a lifetime spent "practicing history".

In this Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, historian Barbara Tuchman brings to life the people and events that led up to World War I. This was the last gasp of the Gilded Age, of Kings and Kaisers and Czars, of pointed or plumed hats, colored uniforms, and all the pomp and romance that went along with war. How quickly it all changed...and how horrible it became.

The 14th century reflects two contradictory images: on the one hand, a glittering time of crusades and castles, cathedrals and chivalry, and the exquisitely decorated Books of Hours; and on the other, a time of ferocity and spiritual agony, a world of chaos and the plague.

At its height, the Order of the Knights Templar rivaled the kingdoms of Europe in military might, economic power, and political influence. For 700 years the tragic demise of this society of warrior-monks amid accusations of heresy has been plagued by controversy, in part because the transcript of their trial by the Inquisition - which held the key to the truth - had vanished.Templar historian Barbara Frale happened to be studying a document at the Vatican Secret Archives when she suddenly realized that it was none other than the long-lost transcript!

From best-selling social commentator and cultural historian Barbara Ehrenreich comes this fascinating exploration of one of humanity's oldest traditions: the celebration of communal joy, historically expressed in ecstatic revels of feasting, costuming, and dancing. Ehrenreich uncovers the origins of communal celebration in human biology and culture, showing that such mass festivities have been indigenous to the West since the ancient Greeks.

In The March of Folly, two-time Pulitzer Prize winning historian Barbara Tuchman tackles the pervasive presence of folly in governments through the ages. Defining folly as the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests, despite the availability of feasible alternatives, Tuchman details four decisive turning points in history that illustrate the very heights of folly in government.

The fateful quarter-century leading up to World War I was a time when the world of privilege still existed in Olympian luxury and the world of protest was heaving in its pain, its power, and its hate. The age was the climax of a century of the most accelerated rate of change in history, a cataclysmic shaping of destiny.

New York Times bestselling biographer Barbara Leaming has written a riveting political dramaof the last ten years of Winston Churchill's public life. In Churchill Defiant, Leaming tells the tumultuous behind-the-scenes story of Churchill's refusal to retire after his 1945 electoral defeat, and...

Gwenda and Douglas Brady were among the millions of British children sent to live with new families for their own safety during the Second World War, leaving behind their parents, their friends and all that felt familiar and safe. Evacuation could be a scary experience, but five-year-old Gwenda and her brother were lucky enough to be housed with a kindly schoolmaster and his wife, and soon the realities of the war felt very far away.

Cozy up to true stories of ghosts, murders, weirdness, and the dark history of our town—Santa Barbara, California—and the surrounding Central Coast. Join your hosts Liz, Jen, and Summers each week for a dive into a story of surprising, sometimes-spooky local history. Whether our topic of the week lands you in Santa Barbara, Santa Maria, Lompoc, Carpinteria, Solvang, Santa Ynez, Isla Vista, Los Olivos, Guadalupe, Cuyama, at UCSB, or somewhere in between, we promise it’ll be an adventure.

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1905-2025 : 120 ans de laïcité Ce podcast vous emmène à la découverte de 120 lieux emblématiques de l'histoire religieuse de France, oubliés ou méconnus, qui racontent une autre histoire de France, celle qui s'est faite par, avec ou parfois contre les religions. Chaque épisode explore un lieu qui garde en mémoire un lien avec les religions. À travers ces lieux, c’est une autre France qui se dessine. Une histoire faite de luttes, d’utopies, de fractures, mais aussi de liens et d’héritages. Un épisode, un lieu, une tranche d’Histoire. Bienvenue dans 120 ans, 120 lieux, un ...

Il Messale di Barbara di Brandeburgo è un codice miniato dal valore inestimabile, commissionato dai Gonzaga intorno al 1440, nel periodo di massimo splendore della loro dominazione a Mantova."Uno missale molto bello et ornatissimo" così lo definiva nel 1450 il marchese Ludovico II: non si era badato a spese pur di commissionare ad artisti rinomati un libro liturgico di altissimo livello.Sui vari committenti della corte, si impone una straordinaria figura femminile: Barbara di Brandeburgo, colta, autorevole e abile diplomatica. Oggi quest’opera è il fiore all’occhiello del Museo ...

Die keltische Kultur erlebte viele Hochs und Tiefs. Auf die erste Hochphase im 7. Jh. v. Chr. folgte der Untergang, doch die Kelten richteten sich im 2. Jh. v. Chr. wieder auf, bis Julius Cäsar Gallien eroberte und die Kultur erneut erstarb. Erst nach ihrer dritten Blütezeit auf den Britischen Inseln waren die Kelten ein für allemal besiegt. Doch gerade ihre Niederlagen machen die Kelten nicht nur bei Asterix-Lesern und Druiden-Fans beliebt - es gibt so viel mehr zu erfahren über diese faszinierende, vergangene Zivilisation!

Using birthdates, Linda's warehouse pick turns out to be an ancient crown that gives a whole new understanding as to why leaders wore them. Cynthia's pick is the Ark of the Covenant - sort of - a replica built in the 1960s at the University of Minnesota, and it has a surprise. Mike and Irina explore physics in the crystal balls and find information unknown to us in the first "pages". Mandy works with a colleague who is on the International Space Station whose experiment goes out of control.

Hoje a coisa é simples. Você abre a torneira do filtro—ou a garrafinha de água mineral—e mata a sede à vontade. Mas, para nossos antepassados, água costumava ser um problemão: um gole podia levar à morte. E tomá-la não era o único problema. Neste audiolivro, você vai descobrir como era a vida nos tempos em que certos objetos (que hoje podem ser até banais) não haviam sido inventados ainda. Descubra como fazíamos sem água limpa, fósforos, vaso sanitário, óculos, anestesia, banho, papel higiênico, cemitério, divórcio, sobrenome e outras coisinhas mais.

Sie lebten in der Wüste, an den Ufern des Sandmeers. Sie kamen in diese verdörrte Einöde, weil sie nicht so grausam war wie die Verfolgungen durch ihre Mitmenschen...

Rubrica ideata e condotta da Anna Maria Castiello e Barbara Golini La rubrica mette a confronto il modo in cui Italia e Germania costruiscono e trasmettono le proprie narrazioni pubbliche: dai media alla letteratura, dalla politica alla memoria storica, dall’immaginario collettivo alle nuove forme di comunicazione digitale. Attraverso articoli, interviste e approfondimenti, il progetto indaga:Identità e memoria: come i due Paesi elaborano il passato (Resistenza, dopoguerra, riunificazione tedesca, anni di piombo, ecc.) e come queste memorie influenzano le narrazioni contemporanee.Media e ...

The amazing experiences of the Queen Alexandra nurses in the World Wars is one of the greatest adventure stories of modern times, and - incredibly - remains largely untold. Thousands of middle-class girls, barely out of school, were plucked from sheltered backgrounds, subjected to training regimes unimaginably tough by today's standards, and sent forth to share the harsh conditions of the fighting services.