Barbara Wertheim Tuchman (January 30, 1912 – February 6, 1989) was an American historian and author. January 30 is the 30th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1912 is a leap year starting on Monday. ... February 6 is the 37th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1989 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A historian is a person who studies history. ...

Tuchman, daughter of a banker, received her BA from Radcliffe College in 1933 and worked as a journalist for a number of years before turning to writing books. Radcliffe College is the historical name of a womens educational institution closely associated with Harvard University, one of the Seven Sisters. ...

As an author, Tuchman focused on producing popular history. Her clear, dramatic storytelling covered topics as diverse as the 14th century and World War I, and sold millions of copies. (13th century - 14th century - 15th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 14th century was that century which lasted from 1301 to 1400. ... World War I was primarily a European conflict with many facets: immense human sacrifice, stalemate trench warfare, and the use of new, devastating weapons - tanks, aircraft, machineguns, and poison gas. ...

Tuchman was the author of books which conspired to be more popular than the established classics of the field. Inventing the Middle Ages by Norman Cantor, a history of medieval historians, describes her work in context. Norman F. Cantor (born in Winnipeg, Canada on November 19, 1929, died in Miami, Florida, United States on September 18, 2004) was a historian who specialized in the medieval period. ...

Partial List of Works

• The Lost British Policy: a book about British policy in Spain and the western Mediterranean, 1938
• Bible and the Sword:England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to Balfour: a book about English involvement in Palestine over the centuries, 1956.
• The Zimmermann Telegram: The key incident that provoked the USA into entering World War I, 1958
• A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century, an overview of 14th Century medieval Europe. A good place to start.
• The Guns of August covers the breaking out of World War I. The book that established her reputation.
• The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War 1890-1914. Covers the hesitant rise of U.S. imperialism, anarchist assassinations, socialism and communism and the devolution of the 19th century order in Europe and North America.
• Stilwell and the American Experience in China: a biography of Joseph Stilwell, 1970.
• The First Salute: A View of the American Revolution.
• The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam: A meditation on unwisdom (as distinct from stupidity) as a force in history.
• Practicing History: Selected essays on historical writing, political ambition, and the importance of reading history.
• Fin De Siecle a novel.

She won twice the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction, firstly for The Guns of August and again for Stilwell and the American Experience in China. 1938 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Map of the British Mandate of Palestine. ... 1956 was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Zimmermann Telegram was a telegram dispatched by the Foreign Secretary of the German Empire, Arthur Zimmermann, on January 16, 1917, to the German ambassador in Mexico, Heinrich von Eckardt, at the height of World War I. It instructed the ambassador to approach the Mexican government with a proposal to... 1958 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century, published in 1978, is a work by American historian Barbara Tuchman, focusing on life in 14th century Europe. ... Original 1962 cover of The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman The Guns of August (1962) (also published as August 1914) is a military history book by Barbara Tuchman describing the crisis and events of the first 30 days of World War I. Beginning on July 28, 1914, The Guns... A cartoon portraying the British Empire as an octopus, reaching into foreign lands A cartoon showing the U.S. growing up and growing girth. ... Anarchism is a range of political views whose name is derived from the Latin word anarchia which was first employed in translating Aristotles Greek term αναρχία the privative prefix αν an- without is combined with αρχία arkhê — meaning command or rule). Thus anarchism, in the most generally understood sense of the term... Jack Ruby murdered Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, in a very public manner In its most common use, assassination has come to mean the killing of an important person. ... The color red and particularly the red flag are traditional symbols of Socialism. ... *This article is about communism; a form of society. ... Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ... Stilwell with Generalissimo and Madame Chiang Kai-shek. ... 1970 was a common year starting on Thursday. ... Essay, a short work that treats of a topic from an authors personal point of view, often taking into account subjective experiences and personal reflections upon them. ... HIStory: Past, Present and Future Book I was a double CD released by pop singer Michael Jackson. ... The Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction has been awarded since 1962 for a distinguished book of non-fiction by an American author that is not eligible for consideration in any other category. ...

External Links

• Tuchman's Law