History book : an interactive journey /
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 materi...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, DC :
National Geographic,
[2010]
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| Online Access: | Sample text Contributor biographical information Publisher description |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Item Description: | "With 20 removable facsimile documents"--Cover. The Cushing Library/Ragan Military copy is part of the Ragan Military Collection. The Cushing Library/Ragan Military copy is a gift from Holly E. Rees. |
| Physical Description: | 184 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 29 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781426206795 1426206798 9781426206801 1426206801 |