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The Histories (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 57,366 ratings — published -430
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 274,472 ratings — published 1980
Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.44 — 143,183 ratings — published 1992
The Man in the High Castle (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.59 — 245,071 ratings — published 1962
1776 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 257,757 ratings — published 2005
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 784,059 ratings — published 2003
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 45,620 ratings — published 1978
The Guns of August (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.18 — 87,844 ratings — published 1962
The Six Wives of Henry VIII (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 73,875 ratings — published 1992
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.48 — 122,590 ratings — published 2010
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 106,476 ratings — published 1970
History of the Peloponnesian War (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 41,623 ratings — published -411
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.32 — 1,332,348 ratings — published 2011
Salt: A World History (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.75 — 81,275 ratings — published 2002
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 436,493 ratings — published 2003
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 473,747 ratings — published 1997
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 471,987 ratings — published 2017
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 4,337,621 ratings — published 1947
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 153,455 ratings — published 1960
The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.26 — 25,842 ratings — published 2012
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 98,527 ratings — published 2005
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 829,977 ratings — published 2010
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.39 — 1,019,227 ratings — published 2010
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 76,919 ratings — published 1995
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 124,621 ratings — published 1998
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 88,032 ratings — published 2015
Alexander Hamilton (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 207,577 ratings — published 2004
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 15,792 ratings — published 1776
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.06 — 87,984 ratings — published 2004
At Home: A Short History of Private Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 100,306 ratings — published 2010
The History of Rome, Books 1-5: The Early History of Rome (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 10,081 ratings — published -29
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 205,304 ratings — published 2005
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (ebook)
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avg rating 4.20 — 73,470 ratings — published 1998
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 242,109 ratings — published 2023
The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.20 — 20,135 ratings — published 2019
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
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avg rating 4.37 — 21,909 ratings — published 2014
The Persian Expedition (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 10,333 ratings — published -370
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 78,187 ratings — published 1995
The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 12,331 ratings — published 2005
The Life of Elizabeth I (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 33,004 ratings — published 1998
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.89 — 57,844 ratings — published 2006
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 29,009 ratings — published 2021
The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.25 — 16,833 ratings — published 2014
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.07 — 64,430 ratings — published 2005
The Annals of Imperial Rome (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 9,506 ratings — published 116
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.39 — 372,174 ratings — published 2013
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.41 — 35,150 ratings — published 1988
Cleopatra: A Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.74 — 125,822 ratings — published 2010
Boneshaker (The Clockwork Century, #1)
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avg rating 3.53 — 34,486 ratings — published 2009
His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, #1)
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avg rating 4.07 — 115,734 ratings — published 2006
“How do we negotiate between my history and yours? How would it be possible for us to recover our commonality, not the ambiguous imperial-humanist myth of those shard human (and indeed also most divine) attributes that are supposed to distinguish us absolutely from animals but, more significant, the imbrications of our various pasts and presents, the ineluctable relationships of shred and contested meanings, values, and material resources? It is necessary to assert our dense particularities, our lived and imagined differences; but can we afford to leave untheorized the question of how our differences are intertwined and, indeed, hierarchically organized? Could we, in other words, afford to have entirely different histories, to see ourselves living — and having lived — in entirely heterogenous and discrete spaces?”
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