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Since ancient times, the pundits have lamented young people's lack of historical knowledge and warned that ignorance of the past surely condemns humanity to repeating its mistakes. In the contemporary United States, this dire outlook drives a contentious debate about what key events, nations, and people are essential for history students. Sam Wineburg says that we are asking the wrong questions.

Nasty, brutish, and short. This is the way English philosopher Thomas Hobbes described the living conditions into which humans inevitably fall without a strong, central authority. However, Hobbes would agree that living under a brutal dictator could lead to the same conditions. This exciting new book from historian Michael Rank looks at the lives and times of the worst dictators in history.

Throughout his career, Michael Fellman has explored the tragic side of American history. Best known for his work on the American Civil War and for an interdisciplinary methodology that utilizes social psychology, cultural anthropology, and comparative history, Fellman has delved into issues of domination, exploitation, political violence, racism, terrorism, and the experiences of war. Incorporating essays written over the past thirty years, this collection reveals some of the major personal and scholarly concerns of his career.

Reflecting on his career, Stephen E. Ambrose - one of the country's most influential historians - confronts America's failures and struggles as he explores both its moral and pragmatic triumphs. To America celebrates the men and women who invented the United States and made it exceptional.

Forged during the tumultuous but triumphant postwar years when America came of age as a world power, The Irony of American History is more relevant now than ever before. Cited by politicians as diverse as Hillary Clinton and John McCain, Niebuhr's masterpiece on the incongruity between personal ideals and political reality is both an indictment of American moral complacency and a warning against the arrogance of virtue.

In 1960, the Imperial War Museum began a momentous task. A team of academics, archivists and volunteers set about tracing ordinary men and women who had lived through one of the most harrowing periods of modern history, the First World War. Veterans were interviewed in details about their day-to-day experiences, on and off the front. The project has since grown to be the most important archive of its kind in the world, and provides a unique account of life during the Great War.

They built some of the first communal structures on the empire's frontiers. The empire's most powerful proconsuls sought entrance into their lodges. Their public rituals drew dense crowds from Montreal to Madras. The Ancient Free and Accepted Masons were quintessential builders of empire, argues Jessica Harland-Jacobs.

Famous for its unflagging narrative power, fine organization, and irresistibly persuasive arguments, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire has earned a permanent place of honor in historical literature. Gibbon's elegantly detached erudition is seasoned with an ironic wit, and remarkably little of his work is outdated.

Von Kopf bis Fuß auf Liebe eingestellt? Flieger, grüß mir die Sonne! Was mit Euphorie begann, hörte sich bald ganz anders an: "Deutsch die Uhr, deutsch der Klang". Aus dem Deutschen Reich wird eine Diktatur, deren Gegner immer hemmungsloser vernichtet werden. Neben Originaltönen aus der Politik wie z. B. Auszügen aus den Hetzreden von Adolf Hitler und seinem Progagandaminister Joseph Goebbels, sind hier auch die mahnenden Stimmen von Erich Kästner, Otto Wels u. v. a. zu hören.

RAF, Energiekrise, Schlagerparade, Willy Brandts Kniefall in Warschau. In den 70er Jahren hatte der uneingeschränkte Konsum ein Ende, der Terrorismus wütete, Utopien wurden zerstört. Die heile Welt fand sich in Schlagern wieder, in Blumendekor und Schlaghosen. Und gleichzeitig beginnt in dieser Zeit die Entwicklung zu einem modernen Europa.

Beatlemania, Studentenunruhen, die erste Mondlandung. Eines kann man den 60er Jahren nicht nachsagen: dass Stillstand geherrscht hätte. Es waren die aufregendsten Jahre der Nachkriegszeit: Kalter Krieg zwischen Ost und West, Mauerbau zwischen BRD und DDR...

Was the Confederacy doomed from the start in its struggle against the superior might of the Union? Did its forces fight heroically against all odds for the cause of states’ rights? In reality, these suggestions are an elaborate and intentional effort on the part of Southerners to rationalize the secession and the war itself. Unfortunately, skillful propagandists have been so successful in promoting this romanticized view that the Lost Cause has assumed a life of its own.

Love-Parade und Teletubbies, "Blühende Landschaften" und Korruption, Mauerschützenprozesse und "Ostalgie-Welle". Das waren die 90er Jahre...

Ob Püppchen oder Powerfrau: Frauen wissen scheinbar nicht so recht, was sie eigentlich wollen. Wenn dann auch noch Männer mitreden, wird es wirklich kompliziert. So tobt er täglich, der Kampf der Geschlechter, und das seit über 100 Jahren. Ob in Werbung, Diskussionen, Hits und Filmen, Dorothee Meyer-Kahrweg und Hans Sarkowicz sind überall fündig geworden und haben die besten Originalaufnahmen der letzten Jahrzehnte zu einer so einzigartigen wie urkomischen Sammlung vereint.

Das neue Jahrhundert begann turbulent: Albert Einstein entwickelte seine Relativitätstheorie, Zeppeline erhoben sich in die Lüfte und Forscher drangen bis zum Nordpol vor. Doch die Euphorie wurde erschüttert, als 1912 das Wahrzeichen des Fortschritts, die Titanic, im Meer versank. Und mit der Ermordung des Erzherzogs Franz Ferdinand stürzte Europa schließlich in den Ersten Weltkrieg. Die ersten erhaltenen Originalaufnahmen des 20. Jahrhunderts hat die Redakteurin Dorothee Meyer-Kahrweg ausfindig gemacht und zu einem beeindruckenden Hörbild zusammengestellt.

Goggo-Mobil und Nierentisch, Sissi und "Grün ist die Heide". Das waren die 50er Jahre. Jahre des Neuanfangs, des Wirtschaftswunders, der Sehnsucht nach Elvis und Coca-Cola...

Beyond preserving the firsthand testimonies of participants and witnesses, individuals and societies must continually take responsibility for learning the painful lessons of the past in order to offer hope for the future. Survivor Café offers a clear-eyed sense of the enormity of our 21st-century human inheritance - not only among direct descendants of the Holocaust, but also in the shape of our collective responsibility to learn from tragedy.

Friedensdemo und Neutronenbombe, Waldsterben, die Katastrophe von Tschernobyl und die Gründung der Grünen. Die 80er Jahre sind gezeichnet von Harmoniesucht und Desillusion zugleich. Es ist die Zeit der Existenzängste, der Bedrohung des Friedens durch die Bombe, aber auch der Mobilisierung der Bevölkerung und der Hoffnung auf Perestroika und Glasnost. Demos und Friedensmärsche gehören beinahe zum Alltag der Republik, man redet mit, und schließlich hört man einen Ruf besonders laut: "Wir sind das Volk!" Die Mauer fällt...

Author Bob Wodnik has masterfully compiled the stories of several World War II prisoners-of-war into a non-fiction historical work with the feel of a novel. Listeners glimpse the unrelenting physical agony and mental anguish of these young heroes as they struggle for survival, and then, following years of captivity, make the difficult and awkward return to civilization.

Like F.A. Hayek, Ludwig von Mises moved beyond economics in his later years to address questions regarding the foundation of all social science. But unlike Hayek's attempts, Mises' writings on these matters have received less attention than they deserve. Theory and History, writes Rothbard in his introduction, "remains by far the most neglected masterwork of Mises". Here Mises defends his all-important idea of methodological dualism: one approach to the hard sciences and another for the social sciences.