Henry Carter Hull

The American Revolution signaled a great change in the course of world history and progress. From this colonial revolt sprouted ideals of liberty and democracy, and all the aspirations and ambitions of a new people. In this work, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Gordon S. Wood discusses the character and consequences of the revolution, grounding the events and ideas that shaped the American consciousness.

Text and pictures portray events leading to the Civil War and the people who influenced them.

Challenges common assumptions about America's triumph in World War II, arguing that the war was simply the central act in a fifty-year struggle between rival empires of the West and East.

Living at Risk takes us inside Sandinista Nicaragua five years after the revolution that overthrew the dictator Anastasio Somoza. Subtitled "The Story of a Nicaraguan Family," the film centers on five brothers and sisters who commit themselves to remaining and working with the revolutionary government in various professional capacities: medicine, community organizing, agricultural reform.

A series of short vignettes and quotations that examine the words and actions of notable and lesser-known people around the world that influenced events leading up to World War II, beginning in 1892 with Alfred Nobel's wish that his explosives would promote peace.

Presents a short history of the American Revolution, and examines key events and battles, patriots such as Sam Adams and Patrick Henry, loyalists, British and French soldiers, and George Washington.

In On The Wealth of Nations, America's most provocative satirist, P. J. O'Rourke, reads Adam Smith's revolutionary The Wealth of Nations so you don't have to. Recognized almost instantly on its publication in 1776 as the fundamental work of economics, The Wealth of Nations was also recognized as really long: the original edition totaled over nine hundred pages in two volumes-including the blockbuster sixty-seven-page "digression concerning the variations...

Discusses the various causes of the American Civil War.

Discusses the main cause of the Civil War, slavery and antislavery movements, covering states' rights, the Dred Scott decision, the election of Abraham Lincoln, and more.