Simon Schama Books
Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution
By Simon Schama
In response to a declaration by the last royal governor of Virginia that any rebel-owned slave who escaped and served the King would be emancipated, tens of thousands of slaves--Americans who clung...
Read MoreThe Story of the Jews: Finding the Words 1000 BC - 1492 AD
By Simon Schama
Details the story of the Jewish experience, tracing it across three millennia, from their beginnings as an ancient tribal people to the opening of the New World in 1492 to the modern day. A tie-in...
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