Social History

Social history is a branch of history that includes history of ordinary people and their way of life

At Home: A Short History of Private Life
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
How to Be a Victorian
The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England
If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of the Home
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
How To Be a Tudor: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life
A History of Private Life: From Pagan Rome to Byzantium
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
King's Cross Kid by Victor GreggBelow Stairs by Margaret PowellSingled Out by Virginia NicholsonWoodsmoke and Pigeon Pie by Joan KentThe Egg and I by Betty MacDonald
Everyday Lives in History: 1920s
60 books — 10 voters
Hard Times by Studs TerkelLittle Heathens by Mildred Armstrong KalishCowboys, Cooks, and Catastrophes by Reba P. CunninghamWe Had Everything But Money by Deb MulveyAnybody Can Do Anything by Betty MacDonald
Everyday Lives in History: 1930s
44 books — 9 voters

Founding Gods, Inventing Nations by William McCantsAnnals of the Caliphs' Kitchens by Nawal NasrallahBaghdad during the Abbasid Caliphate from Contemporary Arabic... by Guy Le StrangeThe Last Pagans of Iraq by Jaakko Hämeen-AnttilaDaily Life in the Medieval Islamic World by James E. Lindsay
Abbasid Society
11 books — 2 voters


Karl Jacoby
Because neither corn nor wheat grew well in the Adirondacks, the favored crop was potatoes ("Our food was mostly fish and potatoes then for a change we would have potatoes and fish," recalled one early inhabitant), occasionally supplemented by peas, rye, buckwheat, or oats. ...more
Karl Jacoby, Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation

Hank Bracker
It was to be the longest flight I had ever made in my young life and one of the most interesting. Having always been interested in the magic of aviation I knew that the DC-6B, I boarded was an approximately 75 seat, trans-ocean, Pan Am Clipper. It would also be the last long distance propeller driven commercial airliner. The only difference between it and the DC-6A was that it didn’t have a large cargo door in its side, and it was also approximately 5 feet longer than the DC-6A. 1955 was a good ...more
Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater Two...."

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Early Modern History, 16th-18th Century This is a group for all those with an interest in Early Modern history (roughly from 1500-1800, …more
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