Discusses the history of New Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts, the relationship between the colonists and the native Wampanoag people, and the harvest festival which would later become Thanksgiving Day.

Discusses the events leading up to the Boston Massacre, including the Sugar and Stamp Acts, and the aftermath of the massacre.

Describes the geography, history, economy, culture, and people of the state of Kentucky.

A fun and erudite celebration of procrastination. An entertaining, fact-filled defense of the nearly universal tendency to procrastinate, drawing on the stories of historys greatest delayers, and on the work of psychologists, philosophers, and behavioral economists to explain why we put off what were supposed to be doing and why we shouldnt feel so bad about it. Like so many of us, including most of Americas workforce, and nearly two-thirds of all...

Describes the function of the more than 400 Navajo marines who invented a secret code that was never broken by the enemy during World War II.