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
A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
How to Kill a Witch: The Patriarchy's Guide to Silencing Women
107 Days
Ain't Nobody's Fool: The Life and Times of Dolly Parton
The Secret History of the Rape Kit: A True Crime Story
The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
The Diamond Eye
1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in History – and How It Shattered a Nation
Kissing the Sky
The Personal Librarian
Give Her Credit: The Untold Account of a Women's Bank That Empowered a Generation
The Blood Countess: Murder, Betrayal, and the Making of a Monster
Circle of Days
Propaganda Girls: The Secret War of the Women in the OSS
Abundance
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
The Marriage Portrait
Family of Spies
Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves
Sisters in Science
The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Revenge of the Tipping Point
Separation of Church and Hate: A Sane Person's Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists, and Flock-Fleecing Frauds
All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women’s Bodies and Why It Matters Today
When We Spoke to the Dead: How Ghosts Gave American Women Their Voice
The Violin Maker's Secret
I Must Betray You
Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy
Nuclear War: A Scenario
The Greatest Sentence Ever Written
The Director
Four Red Sweaters: Powerful True Stories of Women and the Holocaust
Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America
Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed
The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post
Jane Austen's Bookshelf
Elon Musk
It Girl: The Life and Legacy of Jane Birkin
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
Scream With Me: Horror Films and the Rise of American Feminism, 1968-1980
Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future
Three Sisters (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #3)
The Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces
Rebel of the Regency: The Scandalous Saga of Caroline of Brunswick, Britain’s Queen Without a Crown
No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson
Boleyn Traitor (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #11)
The Midwife of Auschwitz (Women of War #1)
Hostage
Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
The Sea Captain's Wife
The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
Becoming Madam Secretary
With Her Own Hands: Women Weaving Their Stories
Odyssey (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #4)
Poverty, by America
The Nine: The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany
The Message
A Flower Traveled in My Blood
Mythica: A New History of Homer’s World, Through the Women Written Out of It
The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science
Precipice
The Hidden Girl
Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson
The Keeper of Hidden Books
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
Spitfires: The American Women Who Flew in the Face of Danger During World War II
The Look
The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
The Last Green Valley
The Art Spy: The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland
The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz: A Story of Survival
Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers
Apple in China: The Capture of the World's Greatest Company
Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes
The Paris Express
Moral Ambition: Stop Wasting Your Talent and Start Making a Difference
The First Ladies
One Bad Mother
Glorious Exploits
Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler
If Russia Wins: A Scenario
There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America
Autocracy, Inc.
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
Who Is Government? The Untold Story of Public Service
Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
The Cure for Women
Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again
Glitz, Glam, and a Damn Good Time: How Mamie Fish, Queen of the Gilded Age, Partied Her Way to Power
The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear
A Place of Our Own: Six Spaces That Shaped Queer Women's Culture
A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
L'heure des prédateurs
La península de las casas vacías
When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion

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