A Young People's History of the United States brings to US history the viewpoints of workers, slaves, immigrants, women, Native Americans, and others whose stories, and their impact, are rarely included in books for young people. A Young People's History of the United States is also a companion volu[...]

Celebrated American Indian thinker Jack D. Forbess Columbus and Other Cannibals was one of the founding texts of the anticivilization movement when it was first published in 1978. His history of terrorism, genocide, and ecocide told from a Native American point of view has inspired Americas most inf[...]

Columbus Day is a time to celebrate the landing of the first Europeans in the Americas. From the landing of Columbus in 1492 to celebrations across the country today, Columbus Day provides an in-depth and informative overview of the holiday.[...]

Christopher Columbus is one of the most famous people in world history, yet few know the full story of the amazing, resourceful, and tragic Italian explorer. Christopher Columbus and the Age of Exploration for Kids portrays the "Admiral of the Ocean Seas" neither as hero nor heel but as a flawed and[...]

The Donald Ross-designed golf course at the Elks and Wyandot Country Clubs was celebrated as one of Ohio's best from its ballyhooed beginnings in 1923 until its closing in 1952. During its too-short history, the course and the two clubs associated with it overcame many obstacles, including a lack of[...]

Modern views of Columbus are overshadowed by guilt about past conquests. Credit for discovering the New World, we are told, belongs to its original inhabitants rather than any European, and Columbus gave those inhabitants nothing apart from death, disease and destruction. Yet for the Old World of Eu[...]

The Ottoman naval commander and cartographer, Piri Reis played a leading role in transmitting the discoveries made by Columbus to the inhabitants of Muslim lands. This study shows how Reis' work represented a fusion of the Islamic world view with European map-making traditions. The Ottoman naval com[...]

Named a Best Book of the Year by: * Financial Times * New Statesman * History Today * The Spectator * "Like a Renaissance wonder cabinet, full of surprises and opening up into a lost world." --Stephen Greenblatt The impeccably researched and vividly rendered account of the forgotten quest by Christo[...]