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
COUNSELOR
A Life at the Edge of History
History
Biography
Politics
Invention and Innovation
A Brief History of Hype and Failure
History
Science
Technology
The Lost History of Liberalism
From Ancient Rome to the Twenty-First Century
History
Politics
Philosophy
Mad, Bad, and Sad
Women and the Mind Doctors
Psychology
History
Feminism
Neutrino
Science
Physics
Popular Science
No Democracy Lasts Forever
How the Constitution Threatens the United States
Politics
History
Law
Inside the Apple
A Streetwise History of New York City
History
New York
Travel
Engineers of Dreams
Great Bridge Builders and the Spanning of America
History
Engineering
Science
The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire
Why Our Species Is on the Edge of Extinction
Science
History
Evolution
Enough
Politics
Memoir
History
Russian Roulette
The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump
Politics
History
Russia
Pipe Dreams
The Urgent Global Quest to Transform the Toilet
Science
History
Technology
Lost Knowledge of the Imagination
Philosophy
Psychology
Occult
The Tin Ring
How I Cheated Death
History
Holocaust
War
Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement
A Radical Democratic Vision
History
Biography
Race
The Volatility Machine
Emerging Economies and the Threat of Financial Collapse
Economics
Finance
Business
Napoleon on Project Management
Timeless Lessons in Planning, Execution, and Leadership
Leadership
History
Business
The Betrayal of Anne Frank
A Cold Case Investigation
History
True Crime
Holocaust
Butler
The Untold Story of the Near Assassination of Donald Trump and the Fight for America's Heartland
Politics
History
American History
Less Than Human
Why We Demean, Enslave, and Exterminate Others
Psychology
Philosophy
Sociology
On the Shoulders of Giants
My Journey Through the Harlem Renaissance
History
Sports
Biography
Amexica
War Along the Borderline
History
Crime
Politics
The Rules of Contagion
Why Things Spread - and Why They Stop
Science
Health
Medicine
Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies
The Real West
History
Westerns
Biography
Buffett
The Making of an American Capitalist
Biography
Business
Finance
Attack from Within
How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America
Politics
History
Sociology
The End of Policing
Politics
Social Justice
History
Un-Trumping America
A Plan to Make America a Democracy Again
Politics
History
American
Over the Edge of the World
Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe
History
Biography
Adventure
Crash Course
The American Automobile Industry's Road from Glory to Disaster
Business
History
Economics
Mover Of Men and Mountains
Biography
Christian
Business
Ghostland
An American History in Haunted Places
History
Horror
Paranormal
Taking the Quantum Leap
The New Physics for Nonscientists
Science
Physics
Philosophy
Ancient Philosophy
Philosophy
History
Religion
The Power and Independence of the Federal Reserve
Economics
Banking
Finance
The Story of a Life
Holocaust
Memoir
Jewish
Eating to Extinction
The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them
Food
Science
History
Europe
The Struggle for Supremacy from 1453 to the Present
History
European History
Politics
Perfecting Sound Forever
An Aural History of Recorded Music
Music
History
Technology
Broad Band
The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet
History
Science
Feminism
Freak Kingdom
Hunter S. Thompson's Manic Ten-Year Crusade Against American Fascism
Biography
History
Politics
Medieval Iberia
Readings from Christian, Muslim, and Jewish Sources
History
Spain
Islam
Mosquito
A Natural History of Our Most Persistent and Deadly Foe
Science
History
Biology
The Bengalis
A Portrait of a Community
History
India
Bangladesh
All The Young Men
Memoir
LGBT
History
Models of My Life
Biography
Science
Philosophy
King David
The Real Life of the Man Who Ruled Israel
Religion
History
Biography
Blood & Oil
A Prince's Memoir of Iran, from the Shah to the Ayatollah
Iran
History
Memoir
When the Sky Fell
In Search of Atlantis
History
Ancient History
Mystery
The Philosophy of the Enlightenment
Philosophy
History
Theory
