Geography provides a sense of place. What a country has, in terms of strategic location and natural resources, can determine its role in the world. See why geography matters in this collection of stories.
Dr. Glob spent a career as Director General of Museums and Antiquities in Denmark. As part of his work, he frequently examined really well-prese...
Bookcover image of The Great Raid, by William B. Breuer.
What is the subject of this novel? It is something which Dostoevsky understood firsthand since the story portrays life in a Siberian penal colony (not...
During their "Corps of Discovery" mission, Lewis and Clark kept a record of the expedition. Their journals have been assembled into book form fo...
Image depicts the illustration that was used opposite the title page of Equiano's autobiography, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equi...
A map of the Ohio River together with it's environs.
The author of Thermopylae: The Battle That Changed the World calls the stand of Leonidas and his men, at Thermopylae, "a suicidally defining stan...
This book - Thermopylae: The Battle that Changed the World - provides in-depth background of the three-day battle. It was written by Paul ...
Image of a newspaper notice, by the German Imperial Embassy, warning of potential attacks on ships near the British Isles. This warning was date...
Image of a map of Switzerland, depicting the location of the Canton, Ticino.
The Transkei - meaning "Beyond the River Kei" - is an area in South Africa. It is depicted in red in this map inset. On the 18th of July, 1918, Nelso...
This map depicts the location of Tuscumbia, Alabama - the town in which Helen Keller was born.
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