Charles River Editors

England in the 17th Century: The History of England from King James I to the Glorious Revolution examines some of the most tumultuous periods in England’s history. You will learn about 17th-century England like never before....

Today, the name Clint Eastwood conjures up many different and unforgettable images....

Queen Mary I has been remembered for nearly 500 years as Bloody Mary. The truth, as usual, is more complicated. Mary grew up in a era of religious and political turmoil....

Oliver Cromwell controlled England from 1653-1658 under the title of Lord Protector. In essence, he was a king in all but name....

Seventeenth century Europe, particularly its latter years, is often hailed as the beginning of the Enlightenment....

"Did I not tell you this would happen? I knew they would never allow me to live, I was too great an obstacle to their religion." - Mary, Queen of Scots....

The Great Wall of China is perhaps the wonder of the world that has most captured the human imagination....

Taj Mahal is Arabic for "crown of palaces", and the name could not be more fitting for one of the most instantly recognizable buildings in the world....

Although the Sumerians continue to get second or even third billing compared to the Babylonians and Assyrians, perhaps because they never built an empire as great as the Assyrians or established a city as enduring and great as Babylon, they were the people who provided the template of civilization t

England has more often been faced with the claims of competing kings and queens than with a period of no monarch at all. The major exception to that rule came in the 11 years between 1649 and 1660, when England was a republic....

Reagan's name is still relevant in American politics today, with every politician with an R next to his or her name trying to claim Ronald Reagan's conservative mantle....

Outnumbered against Napoleon's Franco-Spanish fleet in the Battle of Trafalgar, England scored one of the most decisive victories in the history of naval warfare....

In many ways, Judy Garland's rise to fame seems almost predestined....

In the summer of 1969, Apollo 11 successfully landed men on the Moon for the first time in history, and Apollo 12 successfully landed astronauts on the Moon just a few months after....

The library of Nag Hammadi, Egypt, is as significant in the study of early Christianity as the writings of the Essenes to the understanding of Judaism during the time of the Roman occupation....

By the early 19th century, several European nations had banned slavery, but while the United States had banned the international slave trade, slavery was still legal in the country itself....

In the opening pages of his seminal book-length study of Alfred Hitchcock, Hitchcock's Films (1965), Robin Wood famously asked, "Why Should We Take Hitchcock Seriously?"....

The Illustrated Guide to Understanding Astrophysics and the Universe gives an entertaining and educational overview of our universe, from the smallest matter to massive black holes, and everything in between....

Though often remembered today merely for the modern word “epicurean,” which has become associated with luxurious food and refined tastes, the actual philosophy of Epicureanism was far more complex and intellectually ambitious than simple indulgence.

The Moors are well-known for their presence on the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Ages and for the conflicts they fought in Europe, but the term Moor is a historical rather than an ethnic name....