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Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World de Steven Johnson
2106
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story de Nikole Hannah-Jones
2021
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake de Tiya Miles
2021
Queen Victoria's Matchmaking: The Royal Marriages that Shaped Europe de Deborah Cadbury
2017
The Gulf: The Making of An American Sea de Jack E. Davis
2017
The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South de John T. Edge
2017
The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia de Masha Gessen
2017
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI de David Grann
2017
The Home That Was Our Country: A Memoir of Syria de Alia Malek
2017
The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits de Tiya Miles
2017
Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II de Liza Mundy
2017
Thunder in the Mountains: Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard, and the Nez Perce War de Daniel J. Sharfstein
2017
Temps de segona mà de Svetlana Alexievich
2016
The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West de Peter Cozzens
2016
Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier's Story de Matti Friedman
2016
On Trails: An Exploration de Robert Moor
2016
Millennium: From Religion to Revolution: How Civilization Has Changed Over a Thousand Years de Ian Mortimer
2016
The Age of Acquiescence: The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power de Steve Fraser
2015
Avenue of Spies: A True Story of Terror, Espionage, and One American Family's Heroic Resistance in Nazi-Occupied Paris de Alex Kershaw
2015
The Wright Brothers de David McCullough
2015
The Witches: Salem, 1692 de Stacy Schiff
2015
Lines of Descent: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Emergence of Identity (The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures) de Kwame Anthony Appiah
2014
The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words, 1000 BCE – 1492 CE de Simon Schama
2014
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette de Hampton Sides
2014
Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp de Lawrence Wright
2014
Wilson de A. Scott Berg
2013
One Summer: America, 1927 de Bill Bryson
2013
Thank You for Your Service de David Finkel
2013
The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism de Doris Kearns Goodwin
2013
The Great War : July 1, 1916 : the first of the Battle of the Somme - an illustrated panorama de Joe Sacco
2013
The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari de Paul Theroux
2013
The Mansion of Happiness: A History of Life and Death de Jill Lepore
2012
The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris de David McCullough
2011
Jerusalem: The Biography de Simon Sebag-Montefiore
2011
Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation de Andrea Wulf
2011
George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I de Miranda Carter
2010
La llebre amb ulls d'ambre de Edmund De Waal
2010
The Grace of Silence: A Memoir de Michele Norris
2010
Every Man in This Village is a Liar: An Education in War de Megan Stack
2010
The Third Reich at War de Richard J. Evans
2009
America's Prophet de Bruce Feiler
2009
Vicksburg, 1863 de Winston Groom
2009
The Spiders of Allah: Travels of an Unbeliever on the Frontline of Holy War de James Hider
2009
The American Civil War: A Military History de John Keegan
2009
The Man Who Sold the World: Ronald Reagan and the Betrayal of Main Street America de William Kleinknecht
2009
Middling Folk: Three Seas, Three Centuries, One Scots-Irish Family de Linda H. Matthews
2009
Poems from the Women's Movement de Honor Moore
2009
The Remains of Company D de James Carl Nelson
2009
Champlain's Dream de David Hackett Fischer
2008
Crossing the Continent 1527-1540: The Story of the First African-American Explorer of the American South de Robert Goodwin
2008
Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45 de Max Hastings
2008
The Soiling of Old Glory: The Story of a Photograph That Shocked America de Louis P. Masur
2008
In Reckless Hands: Skinner v. Oklahoma and the Near-Triumph of American Eugenics de Victoria F. Nourse
2008
The Crusades, Christianity, and Islam (Bampton Lectures in America) de Jonathan Riley-Smith
2008
Now the Drum of War: Walt Whitman and His Brothers in the Civil War de Robert Roper
2008
The Wordy Shipmates de Sarah Vowell
2008
Massacre at Mountain Meadows de Ronald W. Walker
2008
Bitterly Divided: The South's Inner Civil War de David Williams
2008
The Zookeeper's Wife de Diane Ackermann
2007
American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic de Joseph J. Ellis
2007
The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War de David Halberstam
2007
Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts de Clive James
2007
In Europe: Travels Through the Twentieth Century de Geert Mak
2007
The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography de Graham Robb
2007
The Politics of Heaven: America in Fearful Times de Earl Shorris
2007
Head and Heart: American Christianities de Garry Wills
2007
Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894 de Daniel James Brown
2006
Better for All the World: The Secret History of Forced Sterilization and America's Quest for Racial Purity de Harry Bruinius
2006
Simple Courage: A True Story of Peril on the Sea de Frank Delaney
2006
Building Jerusalem: The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City de Tristram Hunt
2006
Look Homeward America: In Search of Reactionary Radicals and Front-Porch Anarchists de Bill Kauffman
2006
A History of the End of the World de Jonathan Kirsch
2006
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War de Nathaniel Philbrick
2006
The English Civil War: A People's History de Diane Purkiss
2006
The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East de Sandy Tolan
2006
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present de Harriet A. Washington
2006
Shane Comes Home de Rinker Buck
2005
Divided by God: America's Church-State Problem--and What We Should Do About It de Noah Feldman
2005
Grant and Sherman: The Friendship That Won the Civil War de Charles Bracelen Flood
2005
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln de Doris Kearns Goodwin
2005
New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan de Jill Lepore
2005
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus de Charles C. Mann
2005
1776 de David McCullough
2005
Ten Hours Until Dawn: The True Story of Heroism and Tragedy Aboard the Can Do de Michael J. Tougias
2005
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History de John M. Barry
2004
Passages to Freedom: The Underground Railroad in History and Memory de David Blight
2004
The Oregon Trail: An American Saga de David Dary
2004
Washington's Crossing de David Hackett Fischer
2004
Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier de Alexandra Fuller
2004
Aspirin: The Remarkable Story of a Wonder Drug de Diarmuid Jeffreys
2004
The Mold in Dr. Florey's Coat: The Story of the Penicillin Miracle de Eric Lax
2004
Flesh in the Age of Reason: The Modern Foundations of Body and Soul de Roy Porter
2004
The Whole Equation: A History of Hollywood de David Thomson
2004
Born Fighting de James Webb
2004
Infidels: A History of the Conflict Between Christendom and Islam de Andrew Wheatcroft
2004
Gulag: A History de Anne Applebaum
2003
Invented Eden: The Elusive, Disputed History of the Tasaday de Robin Hemley
2003
Quinine: Malaria and the Quest for a Cure That Changed the World de Fiammetta Rocco
2003
Poets of World War II de Harvey Shapiro
2003
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 de Simon Winchester
2003
West of Kabul, East of New York: An Afghan American Story de Tamim Ansary
2002
Out of the Blue: The Story of September 11, 2001, from Jihad to Ground Zero de Richard Bernstein
2002
Larry Burrows: Vietnam de Larry Burrows
2002
Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before de Tony Horwitz
2002
Measuring America: How an Untamed Wilderness Shaped the United States and Fulfilled the Promise of Democracy de Andro Linklater
2002
Sea Room: An Island Life in the Hebrides de Adam Nicolson
2002
The Tsar's Last Armada de Constantine Pleshakov
2002
Lusitania: An Epic Tragedy de Diana Preston
2002
The Turk: The Life and Times of the Famous Eighteenth-Century Chess-Playing Machine de Tom Standage
2002
Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill de Robert Whitaker
2002
London: The Biography de Peter Ackroyd
2001
Black Athena Writes Back: Martin Bernal Responds to His Critics de Martin Gardiner Bernal
2001
Wittgenstein's Poker : The Story of a Ten-minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers de David Edmonds
2001
This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland de Gretel Ehrlich
2001
Schnitzler's Century: The Making of Middle-Class Culture, 1815-1914 de Peter Gay
2001
Diamond: The History of a Cold-Blooded Love Affair de Matthew Hart
2001
Pickled, potted, and canned : how the art and science of food preserving changed the world de Sue Shephard
2001
Images from the Storm de Robert Knox Sneden
2001
A President in the Family: Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings, and Thomas Woodson de Byron W. Woodson Sr.
2001
American Colonies: The Settling of North America de Alan Taylor
2001
Venice: Lion City: The Religion of Empire de Garry Wills
2001
Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766 de Fred Anderson
2000
The Battle for God de Karen Armstrong
2000
From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life—1500 to the Present de Jacques Barzun
2000
In a Sunburned Country de Bill Bryson
2000
The Great Arc: The Dramatic Tale of How India Was Mapped and Everest Was Named de John Keay
2000
The Blood Runs Like a River Through My Dreams de Nasdijj
2000
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex de Nathaniel Philbrick
2000
Leap de Terry Tempest Williams
2000
Modern times, modern places de Peter Conrad
1999
Jesus: One Hundred Years Before Christ de Alvar Ellegård
1999
The First World War de John Keegan
1999
Home Town de Tracy Kidder
1999
Years of Renewal de Henry Kissinger
1999
Kaiser Wilhelm II: Germany's Last Emperor de John Van der Kiste
1999
The Basque History of the World: The Story of a Nation de Mark Kurlansky
1999
All Souls: A Family Story from Southie de Michael Patrick MacDonald
1999
In Nevada: The Land, the People, God, and Chance de David Thomson
1999
A Necessary Evil: A History of American Distrust of Government de Garry Wills
1999

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