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
Elizabeth I and Her Circle
History
Biography
Tudor Period
How to Listen to and Understand Great Music
Music
History
Art
The Age of Capital, 1848–1875
History
Politics
Economics
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volume I
Economics
Philosophy
History
Sound and Fury
Two Powerful Lives, One Fateful Friendship
Sports
Biography
History
The Drone Eats with Me
A Gaza Diary
Memoir
Middle East
War
These Truths
A History of the United States
History
Politics
American History
Walk the Blue Line
Real Cops, True Stories
True Crime
Biography
Crime
The Accidental Admiral
A Sailor Takes Command at NATO
Military Fiction
Biography
Leadership
The Shortest History of Economics
Economics
History
Finance
Whatever Happened to the Metric System?
How America Kept Its Feet
History
Science
Technology
Raiders and Rebels
The Golden Age of Piracy
History
Pirates
True Crime
Eye of the Beholder
Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the Reinvention of Seeing
History
Science
Art
Don't Know Much About the Bible
Everything You Need to Know About the Good Book but Never Learned
Religion
History
Reference
Blackbeard
The Birth of America
History
Pirates
Amazon
Bull by the Horns
Fighting to Save Main Street from Wall Street and Wall Street from Itself
Economics
Finance
Business
Tesla
Inventor of the Electrical Age
Biography
Science
History
Power, Terror, Peace, and War
America's Grand Strategy in a World at Risk
History
Politics
International Relations
Miss May Does Not Exist
The Life and Work of Elaine May, Hollywood’s Hidden Genius
Biography
Film
Biography Memoir
La sabiduría de las aves
Una historia ilustrada de la ornitología
Birds
Nature
Science
Conquistador
Hernán Cortés, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs
History
Biography
War
Bobby Kennedy
The Making of a Liberal Icon
Biography
History
Politics
Desperate Remedies
Psychiatry’s Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness
Psychology
History
Mental Health
A Brilliant Life
My Mother’s Inspiring True Story of Surviving the Holocaust
Holocaust
Biography
History
10 Books That Screwed Up the World
And 5 Others That Didn't Help
History
Philosophy
Politics
White Rage
The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
History
Race
Politics
Ils y étaient avant Christophe Colomb
History
Africa
Race
A Short History of (Nearly) Everything Paranormal
Spirituality
History
Paranormal
The Black History of the White House
History
American History
Politics
International Law
Law
School
History
The Grim Sleeper
The Lost Women of South Central
True Crime
Crime
History
The Gales of November
The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
History
American History
Historical
The Shadow of a Great Rock
A Literary Appreciation of the King James Bible
Religion
Literary Criticism
History
Impounded
Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment
History
Photography
World War II
Old Rage
'One of our best-loved actor's powerful riposte to a world driving her mad’ - DAILY MAIL
Autobiography
Memoir
Book Club
50 Battles That Changed the World
The Conflicts That Most Influenced the Course of History
History
Military Fiction
War
The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes
The Life and Times of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Biography
History
Mystery
Newton's Football
The Science Behind America's Game
Sports
Science
Football
Black in Blues
How a Color Tells the Story of My People
History
Essays
Race
Beethoven
The Universal Composer
Biography
Music
History
Scotland
A Very Short Introduction
History
Scotland
British Literature
Island Infernos
The US Army's Pacific War Odyssey, 1944
History
World War II
Military History
Written in Blood
A History of Forensic Detection
True Crime
History
Crime
Dear Madam President
An Open Letter to the Women Who Will Run the World
Politics
Feminism
Memoir
Days of Rage
America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence
History
Politics
American History
Hatching Twitter
A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal
Business
Technology
Biography
The Klondike Fever
The Life and Death of the Last Great Gold Rush
History
Canada
American History
The Palestinian Delusion
The Catastrophic History of the Middle East Peace Process
History
Politics
Israel
The Strategy of Denial
American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict
Politics
China
History
Unknown Quantity
A Real and Imaginary History of Algebra
Mathematics
Science
History
