History

I. HISTORY OVERVIEWS AND PIVOTAL PERIODS

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1.  A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking, 1998 

2.  A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson, 2004 

3.  Climate Change in Prehistory:  The End of the Reign of Chaos, William James Burroughs, 2005 

4.  Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Yuval Noah Harari, 2015 

5.  Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond, 1999 

6.  A Little History of the World, E.H. Gombrich, 1935

7.  The Silk Roads: A New History of the World, Peter Frankopan, 2016

8.  Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of An Empire, Simon Baker, 2007

9.  In Search of the Dark Ages, Michael Wood, 2001

10.  A History of the Vikings, Gwyn Jones, 1968

11.  Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Civilization, Lars Brownworth, 2010

12.  The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century, Ian  Mortimer, 2011

13.  The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land, Thomas Asbridge, 2011 

14.  A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century, Barbara W. Tuchman, 1987

15.  1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, Charles C. Mann, 2006

16.  Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World, Jack Weatherford, 2010

17.  Search for Modern China, Jonathan D. Spence, 1991

18.  A History of the Arab Peoples, Albert Hourani, 1991

19.  The Wealth and Poverty of Nations, David Landes, 1998

20.  1776, David McCullough, 2006

21.  The Age of Revolution: Europe 1789 - 1848, Eric Hobsbawm, 1962

22.  The French Revolution and Napoleon, Charles Downer Hazen, 2017

23.  What Hath God Wrought, Daniel Walker Howe, 2009

24.  Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era, James M. McPherson, 2003

25.  The Guns of August, Barbara W. Tuchman, 1962

26.  A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East,  David Fromkin, 2009

27.  Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West, Dee Brown, 2010

28.  The Earth is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West, Peter Cozzens, 2016

29.  Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History, S.C. Gwynne, 2011

30.  Not Stolen:  The Truth About European Colonialism in the New World, Jeff Fynn-Paul, 2023

31.  King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa, Adam Hochschild, 1999

32.  The Scramble for Africa: White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912, Thomas Pakenham, 1992

33.  Inferno: The World at War, 1939 - 1945, Max Hastings, 2012

34.  A Short History of Russia, Mark Galeotti, 2022

35.  Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942 - 1943, Antony Beevor, 1999

36.  The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany, William L. Shirer, 1960

37.  The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936 - 1945, John Toland, 2003

38.  The Gulag Archipelago, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1973

39.  A People's History of the United States, Howard Zinn, 2005

40.  Albion's Seed:  Four British Folkways in America, 1989, David Hackett Fischer

41.  American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America, Colin Woodard, 2012

42.  Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10th, 2001, Steve Coll, 2004

43.  Post War, Tony Judt, 2006

44.  The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam, Douglas Murray, 2017

45. The End of the World Is Just the Beginning:  Mapping the Collapse of Globalization, Peter Zeihan, 2022

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