Big History By Historian David Christian

In Nothing But the Truth there is one thing that stood out to me throughout the entire book. The whole book is full of lies. Philip Malloy tells lies about everything and to everyone. He lies to his parents, the principal, and even to a reporter that is interviewing him. Throughout the book we continue to see the lies play out until the very end of the book when Philip finally decides to tell the truth.

No one has a bigger passion for baseballs than Zack Hample. He is what we call a ballhawk - someone that goes to baseball games with the intent to get as many baseballs as possible. Having attended over 1,500 games lifetime, Zack has snagged over 10,000 baseballs. Zack documents these games with his videographer and posts them to YouTube where he has almost 200,000 subscribers. Two of his most historic balls include Mike Trout’s first career home run and Alex Rodriguez’s 3,000th career hit. In The Baseball, he shares with us many tips and secrets to his ballhawking success and teaches us strategies to get our own balls at games. Along with that, Zack discusses many anecdotes and the history of the ball.

In a companion volume to his best-selling biography John Adams (2001), David McCullough closely examines a year of near-mythic status in the American collective memory: 1776. It was the year that the Continental Congress, meeting in steamy Philadelphia, decided, “these united colonies are, and of right ought to be free and independent states.” It was also the year that the American Revolution began in earnest and was nearly lost. With his strong sense of narrative and his gift for capturing the humanity of his subjects, McCullough leads readers through a well-known story with both style and grace.

In 2003, the nonfiction author Jon Krakauer published his book Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith. Motivated to expand the typically Islam-focused understanding of religious extremism that dominated the U.S. after 9/11, Under the Banner of Heaven addresses fundamentalism and the violence that often accompanies it in a totally different context – the Mormon faith. Krakauer tells in parallel the history of Joseph Smith and the founding of his church, and of the modern-day extremist offshoots that embrace Mormon beliefs but do not belong to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS). By juxtaposing the brutal double murder committed by the fundamentalist Lafferty brothers in 1984 with the 1857 Mountain Meadows massacre

Wendy Warren is a professor who works in the field of the history of colonization in the Americas. She speaks in a segment called, Forgotten History: How The New England Colonists Embraced The Slave Trade in the Fresh air podcast called, Warren and Terry Gross, the host, go back and forth answering questions about the information that Warren wrote about. Warren starts the podcast by sharing a passage that man wrote about how a white man raped a black slave women and got her pregnant in order to make more slaves for himself. In the podcast the professor, Wendy Warren, interprets the many speculations against the reality of slaves during this time.

David Laskin—a graduate from Harvard College in 1975 and Oxford University in 1977—earned a degree in history and literature as well as a master’s in English. He has devoted twenty-five years of his life to writing nonfiction and producing articles for various magazines, including The New York Times and The

Agriculture played a pivotal role in the evolution of human life, as well as revolutionize the globe to what it is today. Jared Diamond wrote a book that is called "Guns, Germs and Steel". In the book, he explains why some societies are materially successful than others. He attributes societal success to geography, immunity to germs, food production, the domestication of animals, and use of steel. Other parts of the globe, such as Europe While on a trip in New Guinea, one of the politicians named Yali, asked the question, "Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of our own?", which made him write a book about it. Diamond’s answer was that people from other

The Battle of Khe Sanh was one of the major battles in Vietnam. The PAVN forces bombed the Khe Sanh base and blew up all of the artillery and mortar rounds. The leaders of the battle the events and the results made the battle important in the Vietnam war.

The use of allusion in the two poems “The History Teacher by Billy Collins and “Outdistanced” by Larry Rubin punctuate the shared theme that that a willful lack of self-awareness can quickly lead to a greater ignorance of what could shape humanity.

In his book, Tortured for Christ, author Richard Wurmbrand retells the horrors he and countless other Christians faced under the control of the Russians and Communism. He begins his story by detailing his beliefs as a child. Surprisingly, Wurmbrand was not a Christian, but instead an avid atheist. He was, however, not satisfied with this worldview. He states, “I was an atheist, but atheism did not give peace to my heart” (12). Through the work of the Holy Spirit and a Romanian carpenter, Wurmbrand was lead to repent and give his life to Christ. Wurmbrand then lead many other individuals to Christ, including his wife. However, his real work began once the Russians and Nazis came to power.

1. History helps us understand the world: History enables us to understand how the world worked then and how it works now. History provides us with the framework of knowledge that we need to build our entire lives. It takes us closer to happenings and events in the past we can

Bing West wrote this book to describe what it was like on the frontlines of the battle for Fallujah during the Iraq War using interviews and time with the Marines. West uses the book to tell what it is like for the average Marine in combat when politics and policies interfere with trying to win a battle and staying alive. In his book West has a way of describing things so that you feel like you are there with the Marines in the combat zone. Here is a part in the book where this happens.

There have been many books that have been published about the rebellion that took place in Peru. The latest book that has been written is “The Tupac Amaru rebellion” by Charles Walker, which has given people a greater perspective on what really happened during the rebellion. The reason for this is because the book doesn’t talk just about Tupac Amaru and his leadership in the rebellion, but it also gives the readers a new perspective on the life of those who were besides him in the rebellion, it talks about the church, and what happened after Tupac Amaru was executed.

The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley is about the life of Malcolm Little, an African American man who has impacted American history while also finding himself as an individual. Malcolm Little, now known as Malcolm X fought against discrimination, segregation and racism against the black community in the

The Age of Enlightenment brought to the Western society a new vision of the world in which states became secular and Science became the pillar of knowledge. Despite these changes, Religion and Science still fight for the throne in today’s age. One of the most occurring debates revolves around the