Microhistory: Social Histories of Just One Thing
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Confidence Men and Painted Women: A Study of Middle-class Culture in America, 1830-1870
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Karen Halttunen
4.05 avg rating β 163 ratings 301. 
The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
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Judith Flanders
3.41 avg rating β 4,258 ratings 
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Elephant Company: The Inspiring Story of an Unlikely Hero and the Animals Who Helped Him Save Lives in World War II 4.27 avg rating β 11,421 ratings
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Germs, Genes, & Civilization: How Epidemics Shaped Who We Are Today (Ft Press Science Series)
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David P. Clark
3.73 avg rating β 1,028 ratings 
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The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How it Changed America
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David Hajdu
3.86 avg rating β 3,682 ratings 
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The Big Roads: The Untold Story of the Engineers, Visionaries, and Trailblazers Who Created the American Superhighways
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Earl Swift
3.90 avg rating β 1,858 ratings 313. 
One Perfect Day: The Selling of the American Wedding
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3.53 avg rating β 1,469 ratings 314. 
Why Things Break: Understanding the World by the Way It Comes Apart
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Mark Eberhart
3.66 avg rating β 386 ratings 315. 
The Crofter and the Laird: Life on an Hebridean Island
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John McPhee
4.05 avg rating β 1,189 ratings 
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How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy 4.24 avg rating β 6,893 ratings
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Poseidon's Steed The Story of Seahorses, from Myth to Reality
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3.67 avg rating β 723 ratings 319. 
Courtesans and Fishcakes: The Consuming Passions of Classical Athens
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James Davidson
3.90 avg rating β 575 ratings 
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Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization
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Lars Brownworth
4.12 avg rating β 5,370 ratings 323. 
Europe's Last Summer: Who Started the Great War in 1914?
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David Fromkin
3.98 avg rating β 1,509 ratings 324. 
Pickett's Charge: A Microhistory of the Final Attack at Gettysburg, July 3, 1863 4.15 avg rating β 316 ratings
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The Devil's Gentleman: Privilege, Poison, and the Trial That Ushered in the Twentieth Century
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Harold Schechter
3.69 avg rating β 2,022 ratings 
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Clean and Decent: The Fascinating History of the Bathroom and WC
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Lawrence Wright
3.58 avg rating β 62 ratings 328. 
Devil's Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three (Justice Knot, #1)
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Mara Leveritt
4.16 avg rating β 12,418 ratings 
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The Castle on Sunset: Love, Fame, Death and Scandal at Hollywoodβs Chateau Marmont
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Shawn Levy
3.67 avg rating β 4,471 ratings 
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Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base
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Annie Jacobsen
3.86 avg rating β 10,399 ratings 
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Much Depends on Dinner: The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos of an Ordinary Meal
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Margaret Visser
3.88 avg rating β 846 ratings 337. 
Napoleon's Buttons: 17 Molecules That Changed History
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Penny Le Couteur
3.98 avg rating β 7,043 ratings 339. 
Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson
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S.C. Gwynne
4.28 avg rating β 8,559 ratings 340. 
The Diligent: A Voyage Through the Worlds of the Slave Trade
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Robert W. Harms
3.91 avg rating β 261 ratings 340. 
Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
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Jon Krakauer
4.12 avg rating β 57,735 ratings 
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Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune
by:
Bill Dedman
3.80 avg rating β 39,204 ratings 
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Scurvy: How a Surgeon, a Mariner, and a Gentleman Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail
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Stephen R. Bown
3.77 avg rating β 1,331 ratings 347. 
Women of the Raj: The Mothers, Wives, and Daughters of the British Empire in India 3.83 avg rating β 662 ratings
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Stradivari's Genius: Five Violins, One Cello, and Three Centuries of Enduring Perfection
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Toby Faber
3.88 avg rating β 638 ratings 351. 
Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization
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Steven Solomon
3.87 avg rating β 651 ratings 352. 
The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Persistence of the Product that Defined America
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Allan M. Brandt
4.08 avg rating β 489 ratings 
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The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years
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Sonia Shah
3.90 avg rating β 1,490 ratings 356. 
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In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
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Hampton Sides
4.29 avg rating β 24,762 ratings 357. 
How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europeβs Poorest Nation Created our World & Everything in It
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Arthur Herman
3.94 avg rating β 6,617 ratings 
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Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War
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Karen Abbott
3.76 avg rating β 16,838 ratings 362. 
The Story of Tea: A Cultural History and Drinking Guide
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Mary Lou Heiss
3.92 avg rating β 655 ratings 362. 
Spare Parts: The Story of Medicine Through the History of Transplant Surgery
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Paul Craddock
3.89 avg rating β 694 ratings 364. 
Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures: A History of Tobacco and Chocolate in the Atlantic World
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Marcy Norton
3.69 avg rating β 160 ratings 364. 
Pink Think: Becoming a Woman in Many Uneasy Lessons
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Lynn Peril
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Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It
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Elizabeth Royte
3.56 avg rating β 890 ratings 
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Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery
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Eric Metaxas
4.20 avg rating β 8,996 ratings 
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The Lobster Coast: Rebels, Rusticators, and the Struggle for a Forgotten Frontier
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Colin Woodard
3.98 avg rating β 1,060 ratings 
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Pushed: The Painful Truth About Childbirth and Modern Maternity Care
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Jennifer Block
4.24 avg rating β 2,909 ratings 
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The Pueblo Revolt: The Secret Rebellion that Drove the Spaniards Out of the Southwest
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David Roberts
3.88 avg rating β 467 ratings 374. 
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Andrew Ward
4.15 avg rating β 105 ratings 
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Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
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Joan Druett
4.06 avg rating β 12,694 ratings 379. 
The Horse: The Epic History of Our Noble Companion
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Thomas Hager
4.09 avg rating β 5,801 ratings 383. 
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
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Eric Schlosser
4.27 avg rating β 14,175 ratings 384. 
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
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David Quammen
4.42 avg rating β 20,026 ratings 385. 
Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures
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Carl Zimmer
4.20 avg rating β 5,906 ratings 385. 
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
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3.94 avg rating β 57,061 ratings 387. 
Faith and Treason: The Story of the Gunpowder Plot
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3.87 avg rating β 1,814 ratings 387. 
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American-Made: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA: When FDR Put the Nation to Work
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3.88 avg rating β 370 ratings 389. 
The Assassination of the Archduke: Sarajevo 1914 and the Romance that Changed the World
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Greg King
4.04 avg rating β 1,652 ratings 
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Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe 4.18 avg rating β 18,440 ratings
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North Star of Herschel Island - The Last Canadian Arctic Fur Trading Ship. 4.82 avg rating β 11 ratings
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How Carrots Won the Trojan War: Curious (but True) Stories of Common Vegetables
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3.52 avg rating β 584 ratings 397. 
ROY G. BIV: An Exceedingly Surprising Book About Color
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3.34 avg rating β 260 ratings 
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Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality
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Christopher Ryan
3.98 avg rating β 31,323 ratings 400. 
Locust: The Devastating Rise and Mysterious Disappearance of the Insect that Shaped the American Frontier 3.88 avg rating β 438 ratings