This text recounts Charlemagne's personal life and his achievements in warfare, learning, art, building, and in the skillful administration of the state.

Recounts in detail the family lives of members of the Kennedy clan, including the drug-taking and other dilemmas of the rising generation.

A fascinating look at national symbols worldwide and the important role they play in creating and maintaining individual and collective identity.

"This revised and expanded second edition of the Dictionary of American Family Names has been nearly eight years in the making.

An account of the early years of Plymouth Colony, told in part in the words of the settlers, with appendices reproducing original documents and biographical sketches.

The Birth of Tragedy (1872) was Nietzsche's first book; The Genealogy of Morals (1887) one of his last.

Elizabeth I, James I, Charles I, Charles II, James II, William III and Mary II, Anne, George I, George II, and George III--the English royals who were also the royals of early America--are all covered in this work.

Shows what various flags of the United States have meant, and what the Stars and Stripes means to us today.