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"

Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
107 Days
A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
Abundance
The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Circle of Days
1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in History--and How It Shattered a Nation
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering
The Personal Librarian
The Happiest Man on Earth
The Marriage Portrait
Hostage
We Do Not Part
Nuclear War: A Scenario
Family of Spies
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail
Boleyn Traitor (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #11)
The Greatest Sentence Ever Written
Elon Musk
Separation of Church and Hate: A Sane Person's Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists, and Flock-Fleecing Frauds
The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
The Look
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson
Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 1 - The Birth of Humankind
Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future
The Director
Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man
The Dead of Winter: Beware the Krampus and Other Wicked Christmas Creatures
Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York
The Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces
Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
The Message
Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves
Odyssey (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #4)
The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
Three Sisters (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #3)
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
Who Is Government? The Untold Story of Public Service
The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
If Russia Wins: A Scenario
Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again
The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post
L'heure des prédateurs
The Midwife of Auschwitz (Women of War #1)
The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country
The Hidden Girl
How to Kill a Witch: The Patriarchy's Guide to Silencing Women
The Secret History of Christmas
Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
Autocracy, Inc.
Poverty, by America
Lázár
Apple in China: The Capture of the World's Greatest Company
Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers
Troy (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #3)
Glorious Exploits
There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America
The Paris Express
Grace (The Shackleford Sisters #1)
The First Ladies
Victoria
Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement
The Nine: The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany
La península de las casas vacías
The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource
Precipice
Becoming Madam Secretary
Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes
The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery
Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions
Source Code: My Beginnings
Jacaranda
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
The Teacher of Nomad Land: A World War II Story
Is a River Alive?
Roma soy yo: La verdadera historia de Julio César (Julio César, #1)
The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip
The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World
Patriot: A Memoir
The Secret History of the Rape Kit: A True Crime Story
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The Place of Tides
A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear
You Dreamed of Empires
The Distant Daughter (The Secrets of Trelenna House #1)
Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed
All the Glimmering Stars
The Winter Warriors
Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: From China to America, a True Story of Abduction, Adoption, and Separated Twins

Steve Maraboli
Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.
Steve Maraboli

George Orwell
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
George Orwell

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