Simon Schama discusses hos book, "Rough Crossings," at Google's Mountain View, CA, headquarters. This event took place on April 14, 2006, as part of the Authors@Google series.

Simon Schama deftly refutes the contemporary idea that the French Revolution was a courageous and noble uprising of the poor and oppressed.

The Dutch, in rebellion against Spanish rule, created in only a few generations a powerful world empire, its culture admired throughout the West…

In this, the first volume of an epic history of Britain, one of the most popular and celebrated historians of our day brings the birth and growth of a nation...

To look back at the past is to understand the present....

The second volume of Simon Schama's A History of Britain brings the histories of Britain's civil wars...

Simon Schama's sweeping history of Britain breathes life into our past centuries, vividly depicting exactly what life was like for our ancestors....

Award-winning historian Simon Schama completes his monumental three-volume history of Britain, which accompanies the acclaimed television epic....

The triumphant conclusion of this engaging history of Great Britain stretches from the American Revolution to the present.

Rough Crossings turns on a single huge question: if you were black in America at the start of the Revolutionary War, whom would you want to win?

"Rough Crossings" is the astonishing story of the struggle to freedom by thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to fight behind British lines in the American War of Independence.

Rough Crossings turns on a single huge question: if you were black in America at the start of the Revolutionary War, who would you want to win?

The Columbia art history professor Simon Schama reads from his latest book, The Power of Art.