Primary History

Blood & Soil: The Fall of Poland and the Battle of France is the second installment in The Protocols series, a chronicle of the rise of authoritarianism in the modern era—from the birth of the Industrial Revolution to the cataclysmic end of the Second World War. This volume focuses on the first nine months of the global conflict, from the Nazi-Soviet invasion and partition of Poland to the final, desperate moments of the Battle of France. Like all the books in the series, Blood & Soil is not merely a history of events, but a record of lives entangled in them. It is composed of carefully ...

Maryland: This exciting book recounts the history of the colony from its founding to the challenges of the colony's early years, the religious and political upheavals, death, disease, and hard labor endured by the colonists, through the wealthy years of the Maryland tobacco plantations, discontent with England, and finally to Maryland's vote for independence in 1776.

New Jersey has a fascinating history. The story of New Jersey spans its time as home to a variety of Native American tribes to an area coveted by the Dutch, Swedes, and English, and finally to its modern-day status as the Garden State.

The war between Athens and Sparta remade the Greek world. In History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides records the long conflict that drew the great city-states of Greece—and their allies—into a struggle for power, security, honor, and survival. From the outbreak of hostilities to plague in Athens, civil unrest, failed diplomacy, brutal sieges, and the disastrous Sicilian Expedition, this is not merely a chronicle of battles. It is an inquiry into how nations reason, how leaders persuade, and how fear and ambition can turn political rivalry into catastrophe. Written by an Athenian ...

A Sweeping History of the Great State of New Hampshire From the raid on Fort William and Mary four months before Lexington and Concord to the first-in-the-nation presidential primary that transforms the state every four years, New Hampshire has always insisted on doing things its own way. This compelling narrative traces the Granite State's evolution from colonial outpost through textile powerhouse to its current identity crisis, exploring how a small, stubborn state has wielded outsized influence in American history. Daniel Hardy chronicles the Amoskeag mills that made Manchester the ...

The earliest surviving account of Alexander the Great, in a new English translation from the Greek. Diodorus Siculus wrote his Library of History in the first century BC, and devoted its seventeenth book entirely to Alexander: from his accession at the age of twenty in 336 BC to his death at Babylon eleven years later. Arrian, Curtius Rufus and Plutarch all wrote afterwards. Diodorus came first, and his is the oldest continuous narrative of the reign that has come down to us. It is also a markedly different one. Arrian worked from the memoirs of Alexander's own officers and produced the ...

From a Bancroft Prize-winning historian, a revelatory new account of slavery, uncovering a surprising web of relationships between Black and white people that ranges far beyond the familiar template of “master-slave” dynamics A white man hosts a wedding party for his Black servant and finds...

Georgia: Using primary source documents, this fascinating book traces the history of the colony from its founding to becoming the fourth state to ratify the U.S. Constitution in 1788.

Using primary source materials to enhance the text, this audiobook tells the provocative story of the Connecticut colony and its first inhabitants. Included are the first constitution and the Fundamental Orders of 1639, which helped to create a representative self-government.

The Power of Primary Care is the story of Dr. Nayana Vyas's 50-year journey across four continents, resulting in the creation of a nationally recognized, award-winning primary care medical conglomerate that produced superior patient outcomes in a cost-effective manner.

Established on a culture of entrepreneurship as well as religious and political freedom, South Carolina's foundations might be seen as a microcosm of the founding of America. This compelling audiobook provides the background and history of this colony which would become a major factor in the French and Indian War, the American Revolutionary War, and later the Civil War.

Europe did not suddenly awaken at war in September 1939. The road to catastrophe was traveled step by step. From the Night of the Long Knives to the Beginning of the Second World War, the second book in The Protocols series, follows the consolidation of Hitler’s dictatorship and the gathering crisis that transformed Germany—and then Europe. Beginning with the murderous purge of June 1934, the chronology traces the creation of the Nazi racial state, the Nuremberg Laws, German rearmament, the remilitarization of the Rhineland, the Spanish Civil War, the Anschluss with Austria, the Munich ...

Leopold von Ranke Explained: Historical Method, Primary Sources, Objectivity, and the Birth of Modern History introduces the historian who helped turn history into a document-based discipline. Instead of repeating inherited stories or using the past to preach moral lessons, Ranke insisted on working from original records and testing claims against evidence. This book explains how that shift happened, what problems it solved, and why his name still appears whenever people argue about objectivity, archives, and the proper way to write history. The book begins by setting Ranke against earlier ...

North Carolina attracted settlers from Europe as well as from other American colonies. In this volume, learn about the resulting troubled relations with the Native Americans in that area, Bluebeard's piracy, and the colonist's rebellion against England.

Though troubled by violent border disputes with Massachusetts and bloody wars with Native American tribes, New Hampshire was settled by knowledgeable merchants and disgraced ministers. They quickly infused the colony with a spirit of rugged industriousness and defiant individualism that persists to this day. This engaging audiobook details the rise of that spirit as New Hampshire grew.

This audiobook traces the history of Rhode Island from Roger Williams' exodus from the Massachusetts colony, thus creating a settlement - the colony of Rhode Island - where people could live in harmony and worship as they pleased. Using primary source documents to enhance a lively and accessible text, it is a vivid account of the story behind the foundation of this colony - and the independent spirit of those who settled there.

This true story of two decorated combat veterans who find a new way to save their comrades and heal their country is “a great look at two of the best veteran organizations going and the incredible humans who make the effort work” (Jon Stewart). In Charlie Mike, a true account that “reads...

Alexander the Great conquered an empire. Quintus Curtius Rufus tells the story of what that conquest did to the man who achieved it. The only surviving extended Latin history devoted to Alexander, Curtius’s account is unlike the more restrained narratives of Arrian and Plutarch. It is dramatic, morally searching, and intensely human: a history filled with battles and sieges, but also with speeches, conspiracies, mutinies, trials, betrayals, drunken violence, private grief, and the corrosive effects of absolute power. The first two of Curtius’s ten books were lost in antiquity, along ...

Nearly two thousand years ago, an anonymous Greek-speaking merchant recorded the sea routes connecting Roman Egypt with eastern Africa, Arabia, and India. His practical handbook—known today as The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea—preserves an extraordinary firsthand picture of commerce across the ancient Indian Ocean. Port by port, the author identifies anchorages, sailing distances, seasonal winds, local rulers, dangerous waters, and the goods exchanged at each destination. Ivory and tortoise shell leave Africa; frankincense and myrrh come from Arabia; pepper, pearls, gemstones, cotton, ...

Pioneers of Human Behaviour: Louis Leon Thurstone A Gateway to His Life, Theories, and Legacy What can a number really tell us about a mind? Louis Leon Thurstone helped transform psychology from a field of broad impressions into one of disciplined measurement. Trained first as an engineer, he brought mathematical precision to some of psychology’s most difficult questions: how intelligence is structured, how attitudes can be measured, how preferences can be scaled, and how test scores should be interpreted. His work helped shape modern psychometrics, factor analysis, educational assessment...