Microhistory

Microhistory is the intensive historical investigation of a well defined smaller unit of research (most often a single event, community of a village, family or person). In its ambition, however, microhistory can be distinguished from a simple case study insofar as microhistory aspires to "[ask] large questions in small places", to use the definition given by Charles Joyner ...more

Super Nintendo: The Game-Changing Company That Unlocked the Power of Play
The Breath of the Gods: The History and Future of the Wind
The Martians: The True Story of an Alien Craze that Captured Turn-of-the-Century America
Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century
Whack Job: A History of Axe Murder
Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves
Human History on Drugs: An Utterly Scandalous but Entirely Truthful Look at History Under the Influence
The LEGO Story: How a Little Toy Sparked the World’s Imagination
Worn: A People's History of Clothing
Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries
Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry
Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America
The Phantom Plague: How Tuberculosis Shaped History
The Genius Bat: The Secret Life of the Only Flying Mammal
Turning to Stone: Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks
Salt: A World History
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
At Home: A Short History of Private Life
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Color: A Natural History of the Palette
The Ghost Map
A History of the World in 6 Glasses
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Paper: Paging Through History
Rain: A Natural and Cultural History
Monopoly X by Philip E. OrbanesStiff by Mary RoachThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Poisoner's Handbook by Deborah BlumThe Ghost Map by Steven Johnson
Niche Non-Fiction
318 books — 59 voters
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs by Steve BrusatteI'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamaraFascism by Madeleine K. AlbrightEnlightenment Now by Steven PinkerChildren of Nazis by Tania Crasnianski
Historical Nonfiction 2018
222 books — 56 voters

The Frozen River by Ariel LawhonBurial Rites by Hannah KentAlias Grace by Margaret AtwoodThe Island of Sea Women by Lisa SeeHamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
Micro-Historical Fiction
133 books — 18 voters
The Mass by Guy OuryGothic Pride by Brian ReganThe Last Great Acts of Saint Peter  by Edward N BrownDeception and Dominion by Re'tzon Ha'elMother of God by Miri Rubin
Catholic Microhistories (nonfiction)
39 books — 4 voters


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History is not merely about kings and their wars. We should know the story of people at large-not necessarily only those of politicians or film stars. How else can we relate to the lives of people influenced by the socio-political milieu, beyond their control?
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