The Best Reference History Books 2024

1. It's About Time : How Long History Took (Paperback)

Sparked by the fateful 73-second Challenger voyage, It's About Time began as a newspaper feature chronicling key moments in history and the length of time each took to occur. This fascinating book, complete with photographs, puts scores of historical events to the clock, including the four score and seven years ago Gettysburg Address--which lasted just two minutes in 1863. It took 43 seconds for the atomic bomb to be dropped on Hiroshima. History was forever altered in less than a minute. In contrast, it took 355 years, 10 months, and five days to end African slavery in the Americas. These moments in history are among the nearly 200 recounted in this turn-back-the-clock look at time--and the part it played in history. Unlike most books that present events in chronological order, It's About Time ranks key historical moments by duration--from the shortest to the longest. * 1/400th of a second-photographing the flag-raising on Iwo Jima (1945) * Two hours, 32 seconds--Neil Armstrong's walk on the moon (1969) * Four days--stock market crash (1929) * 14 years, 28 days--the carving of Mount Rushmore (1927-41) * 2,267 years--construction of the Great Wall of China (7th century B.C.-1568) Featuring facts from each event and black-and-white snapshots from many of them, this book offers a yet-unseen perspective on history and the time it has taken for historical events to unfold. It's About Time is a must-read for history and trivia buffs everywhere.

Sparked by the fateful 73-second Challenger voyage, It's About Time began as a newspaper feature chronicling key moments in history and the length of time each took to occur. This fascinating book, complete with photographs, puts scores of historical events to the clock, including the four score and seven years ago Gettysburg Address--which lasted just two minutes in 1863. It took 43 seconds for the atomic bomb to be dropped on Hiroshima. History was forever altered in less than a minute. In contrast, it took 355 years, 10 months, and five days to end African slavery in the Americas. These moments in history are among the nearly 200 recounted in this turn-back-the-clock look at time--and the part it played in history. Unlike most books that present events in chronological order, It's About Time ranks key historical moments by duration--from the shortest to the longest. * 1/400th of a second-photographing the flag-raising on Iwo Jima (1945) * Two hours, 32 seconds--Neil Armstrong's walk on the moon (1969) * Four days--stock market crash (1929) * 14 years, 28 days--the carving of Mount Rushmore (1927-41) * 2,267 years--construction of the Great Wall of China (7th century B.C.-1568) Featuring facts from each event and black-and-white snapshots from many of them, this book offers a yet-unseen perspective on history and the time it has taken for historical events to unfold. It's About Time is a must-read for history and trivia buffs everywhere.

2. The Timetables of History: A Horizontal Linkage of People and Events [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. Provides a chronology of seven thousand years of significant moments in history, religion, science, and the arts in an accessible format designed for quick reference.

The Timetables of History : A Horizontal Linkage of People and Events, Used [Paperback]

3. The People's Chronology: A Year-By-Year Record of Human Events from Prehistory to the Present (A Henry Holt Reference Book) [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. Now in paperback and updated through 1993, the ever-popular People's Chronology presents more than 35,000 entries that chronicle the major historical events in 30 categories of human endeavor--from art to communications to literature to music to religion to science and more. Enormous fun to read.--The Washington Post.

The People's Chronology : A Year-by-Year Record of Human Events from Prehistory to the Present, Used [Paperback]

4. Encyclopedia of Events That Changed the World [Hardcover - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. Encyclopedia Of Events That Changed The World: Eighty Turning Points In History, by Ingpen, Robert And Philip Wilkinson

Encyclopedia of Events That Changed the World, Used [Hardcover]

5. The Random House Timetables of History [Hardcover - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. Vest pocket

The Random House Timetables of History, Used [Hardcover]

6. History Magazine, Used [Paperback]

Articles Include: The 1800s; Bloodletting; Poor Richard's Almanac; The Ever-Practical Paper; Noble Learned Corporation; Panama Canal; Working Women in New York; Privateers of the Caribbean; The Knights Templar; Dr. Gatlin's Killing Machine; Surviving Songs; The Game of Kings; The Early 1400s; Development of Guilds; Christmas in America; Bathe as the Romans Do; Farming in the New World; Thar She Blows!; Lying-In; Differing Points of View; Trial by Ordeal; The 1770s; The First Subways; Unraveling the Stars; The All-American Spirit; Office Life Before 1920; Tea; The Brew of Empires; Winged Messengers; Typhoid; Saved by the Bell; The 1520s; Coffee; The Hanseatic League; The First Crusade; The Northwest Passage; Read Any Good Books Lately?; The Tower of London; The Scholarly Guild; Bundling; The 1860s; A Tale of Two Benjamins; Taxes; Maker and Breaker of Empires; Inns and Hotels; Money; Money; Money!; A Diplomatic Blunder; The Heart of the Home; Good For What Ales You; James Lind; Savior of the Navy; The Great Highland Bagpipe; Knock Me Up In the Morning; The 700s; Colonial Midwives; The Magazine; Storehouse of News and Views; Ice Skating; The Korean War; Dungeons and Dragons; The Tobacco Trade; Horrors that Thrilled Our Ancestors; The Stock Exchange; Hear Ye! Hear Ye!; Bound by Tradition. A2142HB - $25.00

History Magazine, Used [Paperback]