History is Not Boring discussion

What are you reading?

The Eastern Association by Clive Holmes. English Civil War.

Contemporary history, finished and halfway done with the review:
At Home with Muhammad Ali: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Forgiveness

Listening to the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire (120 hour! audio book), and reading Ride The Devil's Herd: Wyatt Earp's Epic Battle Against the West's Biggest Outlaw Gang by John Boessenecker (2020), The gang is the Cowboys, which makes for an confusing name now, but not back then.

Sam Houston & the Alamo Avengers by Brian Kilmeade.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

Mainly the UK Civil Nuclear Programme which has fascinated me since doing a taster on Nuclear Engineering at QMC London over 40 years ago.

My reading focuses on a few areas of interest: English medieval history, the Italian Renaissance, the American Revolution, WW II and Christianity. It's a diverse range, I know, but I have always been interested in crossroads. If anyone has any book suggestions among these topics, please let me know. Thanks and stay safe.

Judy Petsonk
Recently I’ve been reading The I.L.Peretz Reader (edited byRuth R. Wisse)and The Best of Sholom Aleichem (edited by Irving Howe and Ruth R. Wisse). As a writer of historical fiction (most recenlty Justice: Maccabees and Pharisees0, I notice that they both these authors were consciously writing historical fiction. They were chronicling, with humor and irony, a way of life that they could see disappearing before their eyes. Even without knowing about the coming Holocaust, they tried to capture the flavor of that way of life but even when they lived alongside it, they were already seeing it from the outside.