National Geographic History Book: An Interactive Journey

by Marcus Cowper

You won't find dusty topics and long-dead heroes and villains in the National Geographic History Book. Turn the pages and you'll find documents, letters, journals, telegrams, posters, and artworks that you can literally pull out and examine. See for yourself, with the primary source materials that history buffs love, what really happened and who really did it.   Pull out Shakespeare's will and see how he changed his mind about who got what. Examining a facsimile of the Zouche-Nuttall Codex gives you a sense of the turmoil of pre-Columbian Mexico. Take a look at a steamy love letter written by Napoleon to his wife Josephine. Marvel at the beauty of a wall fresco from first-century Pompeii. Read pages from the Gutenberg Bible, the world's first printed book. Examine a "Wanted" poster for Abraham Lincoln's assassin...and more.   Through the pages of this book, you will explore the forces that shaped our world, from the Roman Empire and the Black Death to Hollywood and the World Wide Web. Mozart and Picasso. Genghis Khan and Gandhi. Hitler, Elvis, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Not an encyclopedia or a comprehensive survey, the National Geographic History Book is a storyboard of major characters, key plot point and crucial details in the moving picture of human history. It is a portal through time, a collector's showcase of historical treasures and oddities, and a scrapbook of the human family.

Genres: History, Nonfiction

184 pages, Hardcover

First published October 18, 2011

Reviews

[Ivy Bernadette · Rating 5 out of 5]

Not a really comprehensive History book, but it will give you a gist of the important events that happened in the timeline of human civilization. And I think those facsimile documents are really cool! I'm getting more and more in love with History. ♥

[Sarah Uren · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love this as an overview for Homeschool Highschool History text.
Great starting point with times and figures influencing the ages.

Renaissance p.50

Gutenburg Press p. 52-53

Age of Elizabeth p 72

Enlightenment p.84

Industrial Revolution p. 106

Womens Suffrage Movement p 136

The Great Depression p. 140

Oppenheimer/Atomic Bomb p 144

Mao Zedong p 150

The Korean War p. 152

The Cold War p 158

Vietnam War p 166

9-11 p 176

[Catherine · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really a fascinating book telling the story of human by event or person. I learned a great deal about events that I didn't even know they existed and events that I knew but did not understand.