Most Read This Week In History

History (from Greek ἱστορία - historia, meaning "inquiry, knowledge acquired by investigation") is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians. It is a field of research which uses a narrative to examine and analyse the sequence of events, and it sometimes attempts to investigate objectively the patterns of cause and effect that determine events. Historians debate the nature of history and its usefulness. This includes discu ...more

Most Read This Week Tagged "History"

London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
The Marriage Portrait
107 Days
The Diamond Eye
The Personal Librarian
Abundance
1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in History – and How It Shattered a Nation
Lázár
The Foursome
Daughter of Egypt
Circle of Days
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
The Director
Family of Spies
When We See You Again
We Do Not Part
The Greatest Sentence Ever Written
Revenge of the Tipping Point
The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Separation of Church and Hate: A Sane Person's Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists, and Flock-Fleecing Frauds
I Must Betray You
Take Me to Your Leader: Perspectives on Your First Alien Encounter
Odyssey (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #4)
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
Boleyn Traitor (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #11)
Kids, Wait Till You Hear This!
Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed
Three Sisters (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #3)
Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves
Nuclear War: A Scenario
Elon Musk
Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America
The Midwife of Auschwitz (Women of War #1)
Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future
The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post
How to Kill a Witch: The Patriarchy's Guide to Silencing Women
All the Glimmering Stars
The Shock of the Light
The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
The First Ladies
Glorious Exploits
The Nowhere Sisters
A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
We the Women: The Hidden Heroes Who Shaped America
Entitled
Becoming Madam Secretary
The Hidden Girl
Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
The Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces
L'homme qui lisait des livres
Hostage
A Founding Mother: A Novel of Abigail Adams
There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Young Man in a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery
Moral Ambition: Stop Wasting Your Talent and Start Making a Difference
No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson
Poverty, by America
The Tribe and I Have Spoken: The Definitive (Unofficial) Lore and Legacy from the Game's Smartest Surviving Loser
Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: From China to America, a True Story of Abduction, Adoption, and Separated Twins
This Land Is Your Land: A Road Trip Through U.S. History
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
Daughters of Shandong
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
Ain't Nobody's Fool: The Life and Times of Dolly Parton
The Paris Express
Munich Wolf
Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers
The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement
Precipice
The Nine: The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany
Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
The Message
The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources
Fight Oligarchy
Football
The Pretender
The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear
The Last Green Valley
A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
Who Is Government? The Untold Story of Public Service
The Lost Book of Elizabeth Barton
King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution—A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation
The World Played Chess
The Postcard
Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes
If Russia Wins: A Scenario
Miss Morgan's Book Brigade
Jacaranda
White River Crossing
Apple in China: The Capture of the World's Greatest Company

George Harrison
It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one. ...more
George Harrison

John Banville
The past beats inside me like a second heart.
John Banville, The Sea

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