From Wellington at Waterloo and Jackson at New Orleans to the new forces of reform emerging by 1830, the U.S. transformed from an ex-colony into a formidable nation and Britain became the first industrial world power.

The Intercollegiate Studies Institute Lecture Program assists in sponsoring lectures each year at the college, university, and preparatory school levels.

A perfect gift for your favorite history buff, or for your own collection, this audio set from the acclaimed "Eminent Lives" series is a must for anyone interested in the story of America.

In this enlightening and entertaining work, Paul Johnson continues his engaging history series. As he has done in previous books, he approaches the subject of heroism by example.

Paul Johnson provides a panoramic overview of the events that have shaped our twentieth-century Western lifestyle in a rich account of the rise, greatness, and decline of Christianity.

Johnson’s history is a reinterpretation of American history.

This panoramic survey of two thousand years of English history tells how a small nation in a geographical backwater became a major power in the Western world.

From Moses and Jesus to Spinoza, Marx, Freud, the Rothschilds, and Golda Meir, this provocative survey captures four thousand years of the Jews as a people, a culture, and a nation and shows the impact of Jewish character on the world.

This sketch of the minds that have shaped the modern world is an assessment of the moral and judgmental credentials of intellectuals who have advised the human race.

Ireland’s history is more turbulent and fascinating than any other.

Updated with a new final chapter, Modern Times is an incisive account of the seven decades that followed World War I.

Updated with a new final chapter, Modern Times is an incisive account of the seven decades that followed World War I.

Paul Johnson's book is a refreshing return to a concept whose time has come once again: the Great Man theory of biography....