Queen Victoria and Prince Albert: Their Parents, Nine Children and Royal Legacy
Explore Queen Victoria and Prince Albert’s parents, their nine children, their marriage, and Victoria’s role during her reign from 1837 to 1901.
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Jack Black: The Life of London’s Famous Victorian Rat-Catcher
Meet Jack Black, Victorian London’s flamboyant rat-catcher. Discover his life, scarlet waistcoat, dangerous work and surprising role in breeding pet rats.
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Abraham Lincoln: From His Early Life to His Death
Abraham Lincoln’s life began in a Kentucky log cabin and ended in a Washington boarding house after an assassin’s attack. Between those two places, he became a lawyer, a husband and father, and the sixteenth president of the United States. He led the country through the Civil War and helped turn the struggle to preserve…
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Jesus Christ: His Life, Teachings and Historical World
Explore the life of Jesus Christ, his teachings, crucifixion and legacy, with a clear guide to the historical evidence and Christian belief.
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Genghis Khan: His Rise, Conquests and the Cost of Empire
How did Genghis Khan unite the Mongols and build an empire? Explore his early life, family, conquests, death and legacy through historical evidence.
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Adolf Hitler: His Life, Rise to Power, Crimes and Death
A critical history of Adolf Hitler’s early life, rise to power, Nazi dictatorship, the Holocaust, war, and death, with documentary photographs and sources.
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Queen Elizabeth II: Her Life, Reign and Final Days
Explore Queen Elizabeth II’s childhood, marriage, coronation, 70-year reign, final days, and death, with six historical photographs and documented sources.
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Edmund I: England’s Second King, His Family and Violent Death
Meet Edmund I, England’s second king: his struggle to reunite the kingdom, wives and sons, laws, and violent death at Pucklechurch in 946.
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Æthelstan: The First King of England and the Making of a Kingdom
Discover how Æthelstan united England in 927, defended his kingdom at Brunanburh, and built on the legacy of Alfred the Great.
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Almanzo Wilder: The Life of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Husband
Almanzo Wilder is often introduced as Laura Ingalls Wilder’s husband. Yet his own life stretched from a farm in northern New York to a homestead in Dakota Territory and, finally, a lasting home in the Missouri Ozarks. He was a farmer and father whose childhood memories became Farmer Boy, and whose adult years included illness,…
