History
The past comes alive through the pivotal moments, groundbreaking ideas, and remarkable individuals that have shaped our world. Here you'll find compelling accounts of everything from ancient philosophy to modern economics, from social movements to technological transformation, all carefully examined through the lens of time.
History Book Summaries
Demanding the Impossible
A History of Anarchism
History
Politics
Philosophy
The Gulag Archipelago
History
Russia
Politics
The Fall of the House of Bush
The Untold Story of How a Band of True Believers Seized the Executive Branch, Started the Iraq War, and Still Imperils America's Future
Politics
History
American History
Default
The Landmark Court Battle Over Argentina's $100 Billion Debt Restructuring
Economics
Finance
Law
Perversion of Justice
The Jeffrey Epstein Story
True Crime
Crime
Journalism
Clean
The New Science of Skin
Science
Health
Medicine
The Lazarus Heist
From Hollywood to High Finance: Inside North Korea's Global Cyber War
History
True Crime
Politics
Alexander the Great
History
Biography
Ancient History
Live Alone and Like It
Self Help
Feminism
Womens
The Lies of the Land
Seeing Rural America for What It Is―and Isn’t
History
Urbanism
Politics
Lucky
How Joe Biden Barely Won the Presidency
Politics
History
American History
Tearing Us Apart
How Abortion Harms Everything and Solves Nothing
Cultural
Politics
Philosophy
Democracy at Work
A Cure for Capitalism
Economics
Politics
Philosophy
Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst
Finance
Business
Economics
Bill O'Reilly's Legends & Lies
The Patriots
History
Historical
American History
Eye of the Beholder
Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the Reinvention of Seeing
History
Science
Art
Exploring Happiness
From Aristotle to Brain Science
Philosophy
Psychology
Self Help
Founding Brothers
The Revolutionary Generation
History
American History
Biography
The Republic of Pirates
Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down
History
Pirates
Historical
From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation
Race
Politics
History
Deliver Me from Nowhere
The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska
Music
Biography
Music Biography
A Colossal Failure of Common Sense
The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers
Business
Finance
Economics
Cobra II
The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq
History
Military Fiction
Military History
The Underground Girls of Kabul
In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan
History
Feminism
Book Club
Ancient Egyptian Magic
A Hands-On Guide
Egypt
History
Mythology
The Gutenberg Parenthesis
The Age of Print and Its Lessons for the Age of the Internet
History
Politics
Cultural
Wyatt Earp
The Life Behind the Legend
History
Biography
Westerns
Our Kind
Who We Are, Where We Came From, Where We Are Going
Anthropology
Science
History
The Edifice Complex
How the Rich and Powerful--and Their Architects--Shape the World
Architecture
Politics
Urban Studies
Rasputin and the Fall of the Romanovs
History
Biography
Russia
Letters from Burma
Politics
History
Asia
The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism
Philosophy
Politics
History
William Blake vs the World
Biography
Art
Poetry
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
History
War
Politics
A Brilliant Life
My Mother's Inspiring True Story of Surviving the Holocaust
Holocaust
Biography
History
Rommel
Lessons from Yesterday for Today's Leaders
History
Leadership
World War II
The Chancellor
The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel
Biography
Politics
History
PSI Spies
The True Story of America's Psychic Warfare Program
History
Science
Conspiracy Theories
A Short History of the World
History
Classics
World History
The Bengalis
A Portrait of a Community
History
India
Bangladesh
The Passing of the Great Race or the Racial Basis of European History
History
Race
Politics
The Celts
Search for a Civilization
History
Archaeology
Ancient History
Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
Philosophy
Classics
Politics
Civil Rights
Rhetoric or Reality?
Politics
History
Economics
Aristotle
Understanding the World's Greatest Philosopher
Philosophy
Biography
History
Deception
The Great Covid Cover-Up
Politics
History
Science
Tiny Blunders/Big Disasters
Thirty-Nine Tiny Mistakes That Changed the World Forever
History
Historical
Epidemiology
A Very Short Introduction
Science
Medicine
Biology
How Tyrants Fall
And How Nations Survive
Politics
History
Philosophy
Shivaji
The Grand Rebel
History
Biography
India
