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The article discusses the failure of historians to acknowledge a revolution during the second half of the nineteenth century. During this period, historians discarded sacred history as a factual account of human history and began to offer secularized alternatives. However, standard narratives found in textbooks never fully abandoned the geographical and chronological grip of sacred history. In this paper, the author argues that historians has never escaped the grip of sacred history. The paper also explores to create a space for writing a deep history of humankind that integrates the Paleolithic into the general framework of historical understanding.

The article reviews various websites including the W. E. B. Du Bois Papers, located at http://credo.library.umass.edu/view/collection/mums312, Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, located at http://www.slavevoyages.org, and the Cornell Digital Witchcraft Collection, located at http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/w/witch/digital.html.

A bibliography is presented on topics of history which includes the books "The Queen of America: Mary Cutts’s Life of Dolley Madison," by Catherine Allgor, part of the "Jeffersonian America" book series, "Narrative of the Sufferings of Lewis Clarke, During a Captivity of More Than Twenty-Five Years, Among the Algerines of Kentucky, One of the So Called Christian States of North America," by Lewis George Clark, introduced by Carver Clark Gayton, part of the "V Ethel Willis White" book series, and "James Boswell’s Life of Johnson: An Edition of the Original Manuscript in Four Volumes, Volume 3: 1776–1780," edited by Thomas F. Bonnell, number 3 in the book series "The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell."

This section presents a listing of books on history received by this periodical for review. The books include, "The Faraway War: Personal Diaries of the Second World War in Asia and the Pacific," by Richard J. Aldrich, "East Pakistan: The Endgame: An Onlooker's Journal 1969-1971," by Rahman Abdul Siddiqi, "The 1863 Laws of War," "The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant," by Ulysses S. Grant, "Blatant Injustice: The Story of a Jewish Refugee From Nazi Germany Imprisoned in Britain and Canada During World War II," by Walter W. Igesheimer. Many more books are listed.

Presents a list of documents and books pertaining to history. "The Central Australian Expedition: 1844-1846; The Journals of Charles Sturt," edited by Richard C. Davis; "The Papers of John C. Calhoun. A Disquisition on Government and A Discourse on the Constitution and Government of the United State," vol. 28, by John C. Calhoun; "The Hellenistic Period: Historical Sources in Translation," edited by Roger S. Bagnall and Peter Derow.