One of the most famous events in Roman history, the eruption of Vesuvius and the destruction of Pompeii has captured the imagination of scholars and fiction writers alike. In this book, Mary Beard takes a detailed look at life in the town leading up to the volcanic disaster that destroyed it, and debunks many myths that have grown up around this much-studied event.
Great non-fiction or historicalfiction booksfor kids can be a powerful way to personalize far-off lands ordistanttime periods for children. That's a tall order since most of the little ones we teach haven't even been on the planet for very long themselves. How can they understand--and care about--100 years ago?
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Children's historical fiction titles have a truly magical power -- they allow children to "know someone" and thus care about someon) who lived"way back then." As children learn about the book's characters and their lives, theyalso naturally become more interested in the historical setting and thus in your world history curriculum about that era and it's people.
Onegood historicalfiction book can reallystart the ball rolling. We have seen firsthandhow much studentinterest grows when the best non-fiction or historical fiction forkids are woven into world history curriculum. Try it foryourself! Chances are, once your student or child picksupone of thesebest history books for kids, he or she won't want to put it down.
More categories coming!!! We know there are lots of other world history topics to cover, and as lovers of historical fiction books, we are eagerly reading all the great children's books that should be added to this list. If you teach world history to children, please check back soon to more books and more time periods.
Part historical fiction, part political thriller, part quest for justice and revenge, Eterlimus has enough intrigue and drama to satisfy any fan of books about Ancient Rome.Read Eterlimus: Amazon Goodreads
The history of ancient Rome, from the foundingof the city on the Tiber to its sack by the Ostrogoths, spans over a thousand years.As you might guess, some centuries have proved more popular than others. Novelistsscarcely get going until five hundred years have gone by, so there's not muchfiction set during the long process in which the city first battled itsimmediate neighbors and won supremacy over them, survived a near-fatal invasionby Gauls - which greatly weakened their dominating Etruscan neighbors to thenorth - and then fought a successful war against the Greeks of southern Italy.
Years ago while studying political science at a university, I, too, looked at Italy of that time only as a region governed by fascist Mussolini. The official role of the country in the war lasted until September 1943 when the peninsula surrendered to the Allies. The majority of the history books fail to mention Italy in the further events of the war.
This historical fiction by the prolific Steven Pressfield brings the Battle of Thermopylae to life in a big way. As the story goes, Thermopylae is the spot where 300 Spartan soldiers stood firm in a suicide mission to hold the millions-strong Persian at bay. The 300 Spartans would be remembered for the greatest military stand in history.
Accidental Archeologists: True Stories of Unexpected DIscoveries by Sarah Albee, illustrated by Nathan Hackett Albee consistently writes exceptional, appealing nonfiction books and this latest one is no exception. The writing hooks you from the first page and the stories of accidental archeological discoveries are compelling. She includes black and white photographs, informational insets, and present-day updates. I thoroughly loved learning about the discovery of The Rosetta Stone, a fought-over golden Buddha statue, a 5300-year-old mummy, and the other discoveries; you will, too.
"Gina and her publishers have achieved excellence across an extraordinary breadth of categories in fiction, narrative nonfiction and lifestyle. Year in and year out, Random House is home not only to innumerable bestsellers, but also to winners of the highest literary accolades and books that shape the cultural conversation...
Stephen Amidon was born in Chicago and grew up on the East Coast. He lived in London for 12 years before returning to the United States in 1999. He now lives in Massachusetts and Torino, Italy. His books have been published in 16 countries and include two works of nonfiction, a collection of stories and seven novels, including Human Capital, adapted as a film directed by Marc Meyers in 2019, and Security, also adapted as a film and released by Netflix in summer 2021. His ninth novel is Locust Lane (Celadon, January 17, 2023), about the search for justice and the fault lines of power and influence in a seemingly idyllic town.
Column ideas come to me from many directions and, as it turns out, destinations. On January 7, Italian bookseller Almost Corner Bookshop in Rome posted a link on Facebook to a Guardian article headlined " 'It altered my entire worldview': leading authors pick eight nonfiction books to change your mind."
Margo Jefferson chose Ralph Ellison's essay collection Shadow and Act, noting, "Reading him, I realized that even great novelists (and poets) needed to write criticism, that criticism lets them delineate and transmit passion, character and history in ways that fiction did not. For me this change of hierarchies was a change of mind and a change of heart."
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His wife was his first reader, he said, but was not nearly as forgiving and kind as author Doug Bauer, a longtime friend who introduced him at the library talk, or as the editor of a New York publishing house who loved the book but was unable to pick it up for publication. "They helped me hugely," Allis said. "My wife, when reading the first chapter, said 'no one's going to read this shit.'" But Allis ploughed ahead, doing an enormous amount of research in Boston on the large expatriate community of American (many from Boston) and British artists and intellectuals living in Rome in the early to mid-19th century. He read dozens of books about Roman history, and took courses on the subject at Harvard University.
Over the last several years, I have restocked my book collection in a new apartment in Italy and though I would share some of my favorites. From fiction to guide books and history, here are the best books about Rome:
Last week Tineke addressed writing about our own life experiences, sharing 8 ways to do creative nonfiction well. But if you found yourself wondering what exactly creative nonfiction (CNF) is, and what sorts of books represent the genre, you are not unusual.
I get why CNF is not widely understood. But I am sad that so many people are never disabused of the grade-school notion that nonfiction is just history textbooks, science fact books, newspapers, and encyclopedias.
5. The Confessions of Saint Augustine by Augustine of HippoThis is arguably the first creative nonfiction autobiography, although that is far from the way most people read it. It is also one of the most influential. In a single semester during college, I was expected to read this book for classes in writing, church history, and world literature.
History books are not to be mistaken with textbooks. Rather than cherry-picking details to be memorized about a person, an event, or an era, these nonfiction titles are more like cross-sections in time. They provide readers with as much of the social and political contexts of events as possible with the use of rich primary and secondary sources, so as to better understand their causes and their legacies.
Many educational guides as the YA version of nonfiction books. These are targeted at final-year high-schoolers and young college students, with the aim providing them some guidance as they reach that strange age where independence is desperately craved but also a bit scary. Unlike popular YA fiction, this is still definitely a niche, yet, as rising study-with-me YouTubers would show you, there is potential for growth. Other than that, there are also learning guides for older audiences as well.
In these inspiring essays about why we read, Proust explores all the pleasures and trials that we take from books, as well as explaining the beauty of Ruskin and his work, and the joys of losing yourself in literature as a child. Throughout history, some books ... More 2ff7e9595c
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