February 2017

No people have stirred the interest and imagination of the civilized world as have the North American Indians of the Great Plains. For thousands of years before the first European explorers appeared on the grasslands between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains, the Indians of this region hunted the big, shaggy buffalo.

Here, from American Heritage, is the dramatic story of the violent conflicts between Native Americans and white settlers that lasted more than 300 years, the effects of which still resonate today. Acclaimed historians Robert M. Utley and Wilcomb E. Washburn examine both small battles and major wars - from the Native rebellion of 1492 to Crazy Horse and the Sioux War to the massacre at Wounded Knee.
Robert M. Utley is a former chief historian of the National Park Service and the author of many books and articles on western history, including biographies of General Custer and Sitting Bull.

Some of the world's foremost historians - including Morris Bishop, J. Christopher Herold, H. R. Trevor-Roper, and Barbara Tuchman - tell
the stories of the greatest showdowns of all time. Here are the stories of: Richard the Lionheart facing off against the sultan Saladin; Pope
Leo I against Attila the Hun; Spanish Explorer Hernán Cortés vs. Aztec King Moctezuma II; and Emperor Napoleon facing off against Russia's
Alexander I.
Our collection of great historical confrontations ends with the 1904 standoff between President Teddy Roosevelt and Moroccan
desperado Mulay Ahmad al-Raysuni over the kidnapping of an American citizen.

The American people have been and are a constantly changing mixture of cultures from other countries: China, England, France, Germany,
Holland, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Russia, and Spain. The people that found new homes in America have not truly melted into
each other, yet they have created a new culture of their own. Historian Bruce W. Weisberger shares the story of a woman sitting on her
front stoop in New York City boasting about the ethnic variety of her neighborhood: "We're a regular United Nations here."
That accommodating nature, Weisberger points out, has not always been the case. Each wave of immigrants met resistance from the
reigning establishment. Still, America changed them, and they changed America. This book is the compelling story of how "the American,
this new man," as French-American writer Crèvecoeur called the young country's citizens, has remained new for more than three
centuries.

Here, from the award-winning writer and historian Alexander Eliot, is the dramatic story of the rise of ancient Greece to the fall of the
Greek Empire - from the city-states of Athens and Sparta to the empire of Alexander the Great and the power of Constantine, from myths
of gods and goddesses to the foundations of Orthodox Christianity and from Herodotus and Homer to Aristotle and Euclid.
The history of Greece - the birthplace of Western civilization, democracy, mathematics, philosophy, and theater - unfolds in vivid detail in
these pages.

The story of America's westward movement is at heart the story of men and women of all origins and beliefs who helped shape the
character of a nation. They lived a stirring epic, the telling of which grows ever more fascinating it becomes ever more remote. It has
become a romance, a drama of men and women against the forces of a stupendous land and nameless terrors. Pain and violence
tormented whites and Indians alike. Here, from award-winning historian David Lavender, is their enduring story.

The story of America's westward movement is at heart the story of men and women of all origins and beliefs who helped shape the character of a nation. They lived a stirring epic, the telling of which grows ever more fascinating it becomes ever more remote. It has become a romance, a drama of men and women against the forces of a stupendous land and nameless terrors. Pain and violence tormented whites and Indians alike. Here, from award-winning historian David Lavender, is their enduring story.

A lively collection of question-and-answer sessions conducted by veteran journalist Roger Mudd with five renowned hsitorians including
David McCullough and Stephen Ambrose.

One of his ships was rotten, his cold-weather gear was inadequate, and his officers disliked him, but Lieutenant Charles Wilkes had his
orders. In 1838, he sailed into the unknown Antarctic.
Here, in this short-form book from award-winning author Ralph K. Andrist, is the harrowing story of his great expedition.

The event that defined the 1930s in the United States came before it started. On October 29, "Black Tuesday," stock-market investors lost
more than $30 billion in the Great Crash. The ten-year Great Depression that followed was not the product of a single day or week.
Nonetheless, it came as a shock to the American people and to the man they looked to for relief: President Herbert Hoover.
Soon, as banks failed, mortgages were foreclosed, and unemployment soared, bread lines formed throughout the country in grim
testimony to the state of the economy. The policies of Hoover and then Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal started a long road to relief,
recovery, and reform.
Here, from the respected historian Edmund O. Stillman, are the stories of The Great Depression, the 1930s, and an American people
defined by their resilience in the face of debilitating despair