Some of my favorite history books


 

Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond

Collapse by Jared Diamond

Invisible Armies by Howard N. Simpson, M.D.

The Columbian Exchange by Alfred W. Crosby Jr.

The Conquest of Paradise by Kirkpatrick Sale

American Colonies by Alan Taylor

Albion's Seed by David Hackett Fischer

The Art of War in the Middle Ages by C. W. C. Oman

Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen

A Passion for the Past by James Percoco

Divided We Stand by James Percoco

Beyond the Textbook by David Kobrin

John Adams by David McCullough

Church History in Plain Language by Bruce L. Shelley

1421 by Gavin Menzies

The Crusades by Jonathan Riley-Smith

The Age of Gunpowder Empires 1450 - 1800 by William H. McNeill

The Lincoln Nobody Knows by Richard Current

Wartime by James M. McPherson

Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism by James W. Loewen

The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth by Jonny Bowden

Theodore Roosevelt by Mario R. DiNunzio

Founding Brothers by Joseph J. Ellis

Revolutionary Summer by Joseph J. Ellis

1776 by David McCullough

Civil War by Michael Golay

Lincoln and the Abolitionists by Fred Kaplan

Beneath a Northern Sky by Steven E. Woodworth

American Creation by Joseph J. Ellis

Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston - a true story

Renaissance and Reformation Times by Dorothy Mills

1491 by Charles C. Mann

Fleeing for Freedom by Levi Coffin and William Still

A Land So Strange by Andres Resendez

The Black Hearts of Men by John Stauffer

The Price of Greatness by Jay Cost

America's Hidden History by Kenneth C. Davis

The Mapmakers by John Noble Wilford

The Age of Reason Begins by Will & Ariel Durant

The World of The Vikings by Richard Hall

7 Tipping Points that Saved the World by Chris Stewart and Ted Stewart

The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman

What Unites Us by Dan Rather

Imagine Heaven by John Burke

Fever 1793  by Laurie Halse Anderson

Night by Elie Wiesil

The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore

The Fundamental Five by Sean Cain and Mike Laird

 

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