History Published in Decade: 1980s

1.
Mornings on Horseback
Mornings on Horseback 4.10 avg rating — 34,705 ratings
2.
The Weaker Vessel
The Weaker Vessel 3.92 avg rating — 1,424 ratings
3.
The Discovery of the Titanic
The Discovery of the Titanic 4.30 avg rating — 1,977 ratings
3.
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era 4.40 avg rating — 33,177 ratings
3.
Pauli Murray: The Autobiography of a Black Activist, Feminist, Lawyer, Priest, and Poet
Pauli Murray: The Autobiography of a Black Activist, Feminist, Lawyer, Priest, and Poet 4.50 avg rating — 101 ratings
3.
The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding
The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding 4.09 avg rating — 10,199 ratings
3.
Other Losses: An Investigation Into the Mass Deaths of German Prisoners at the Hands of the French and Americans After World War II
Other Losses: An Investigation Into the Mass Deaths of German Prisoners at the Hands of the French and Americans After World War II 3.88 avg rating — 123 ratings
8.
When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace
When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace 4.12 avg rating — 4,293 ratings
8.
Ìsarà: A Voyage Around Essay
Ìsarà: A Voyage Around Essay 3.61 avg rating — 80 ratings
8.
Schindler’s List
Schindler’s List 4.34 avg rating — 164,325 ratings
8.
Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study
Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study 4.32 avg rating — 354 ratings
12.
Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: A Cultural History, Vol. I)
Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: A Cultural History, Vol. I) 4.37 avg rating — 3,468 ratings
12.
A Turn in the South
A Turn in the South 3.63 avg rating — 657 ratings
12.
Heart of Europe: The Past in Poland's Present
Heart of Europe: The Past in Poland's Present 3.88 avg rating — 484 ratings
12.
Holy Blood, Holy Grail
Holy Blood, Holy Grail 3.51 avg rating — 12,576 ratings
16.
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
The Making of the Atomic Bomb 4.40 avg rating — 23,887 ratings
16.
Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans
Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans 4.16 avg rating — 1,208 ratings
16.
Forgotten Holocaust: The Poles Under German Occupation 1939-1944
Forgotten Holocaust: The Poles Under German Occupation 1939-1944 4.23 avg rating — 150 ratings
19.
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932 4.33 avg rating — 15,702 ratings
19.
Composing a Life
Composing a Life 3.75 avg rating — 929 ratings
19.
Churchill's War
Churchill's War 4.19 avg rating — 143 ratings
22.
Gender and the Politics of History
Gender and the Politics of History 3.84 avg rating — 520 ratings
22.
Wallenberg: Missing Hero
Wallenberg: Missing Hero 4.17 avg rating — 765 ratings
24.
In Search of the Trojan War
In Search of the Trojan War 4.09 avg rating — 847 ratings
24.
Survival in the Killing Fields
Survival in the Killing Fields 4.56 avg rating — 3,965 ratings
24.
Nella Last's War: The Second World War Diaries of Housewife, 49
Nella Last's War: The Second World War Diaries of Housewife, 49 4.15 avg rating — 1,832 ratings
27.
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-40
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-40 4.39 avg rating — 11,881 ratings
27.
Reflections on the Way to the Gallows: Rebel Women in Prewar Japan
Reflections on the Way to the Gallows: Rebel Women in Prewar Japan 4.07 avg rating — 121 ratings
27.
Great Myths of World War II
Great Myths of World War II 2.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
30.
The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village
The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village 4.33 avg rating — 1,180 ratings
30.
In Search of the Dark Ages
In Search of the Dark Ages really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,001 ratings
30.
Black Athena: Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization, Vol. 1: The Fabrication of Ancient Greece, 1785-1985
Black Athena: Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization, Vol. 1: The Fabrication of Ancient Greece, 1785-1985 4.10 avg rating — 550 ratings
33.
Fierce Attachments
Fierce Attachments 4.04 avg rating — 18,555 ratings
33.
Peter the Great: His Life and World
Peter the Great: His Life and World 4.15 avg rating — 22,818 ratings
33.
Hitler's National Socialism
Hitler's National Socialism 4.42 avg rating — 52 ratings
36.
Oscar Wilde: A Biography
Oscar Wilde: A Biography 4.01 avg rating — 5,107 ratings
36.
Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography
Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography 3.94 avg rating — 1,579 ratings
36.
The Poverty of Communism
The Poverty of Communism really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
39.
The Rise of Respectable Society: A Social History of Victorian Britain, 1830-1900
The Rise of Respectable Society: A Social History of Victorian Britain, 1830-1900 3.37 avg rating — 51 ratings
39.
The Nomad: Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt
The Nomad: Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt 3.60 avg rating — 341 ratings
39.
Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy
Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy
by: Jim Marrs
4.14 avg rating — 1,614 ratings
42.
A History of Private Life: From Pagan Rome to Byzantium
A History of Private Life: From Pagan Rome to Byzantium really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,192 ratings
42.
In Praise of Imperfection
In Praise of Imperfection 4.03 avg rating — 863 ratings
42.
In Search of Schrodinger's Cat: Quantum Physics And Reality
In Search of Schrodinger's Cat: Quantum Physics And Reality 4.06 avg rating — 21,371 ratings
45.
Revelations of the Medieval World (A History of Private Life, #2)
Revelations of the Medieval World (A History of Private Life, #2) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 593 ratings
45.
Assata: An Autobiography
Assata: An Autobiography 4.59 avg rating — 29,691 ratings
45.
Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Microbial Evolution
Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Microbial Evolution 4.22 avg rating — 888 ratings
48.
So Far from God: The U.S. War With Mexico, 1846-1848
So Far from God: The U.S. War With Mexico, 1846-1848 3.97 avg rating — 453 ratings
48.
An African Victorian Feminist: The Life and Times of Adelaide Smith Casely Hayford, 1868-1960
An African Victorian Feminist: The Life and Times of Adelaide Smith Casely Hayford, 1868-1960 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
48.
The Quest for Merlin
The Quest for Merlin 3.83 avg rating — 186 ratings
51.
The Birth of the Modern: World Society 1815-1830
The Birth of the Modern: World Society 1815-1830 4.16 avg rating — 779 ratings
51.
Landscape for a Good Woman: A Story of Two Lives
Landscape for a Good Woman: A Story of Two Lives 3.75 avg rating — 455 ratings
51.
Stalin's Secret War
Stalin's Secret War 3.79 avg rating — 24 ratings
54.
Richard III: A Study of Service (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series, Series Number 11)
Richard III: A Study of Service (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series, Series Number 11) 3.94 avg rating — 36 ratings
54.
Margaret Bourke-White: A Biography
Margaret Bourke-White: A Biography 3.69 avg rating — 49 ratings
54.
Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England
Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England 3.78 avg rating — 334 ratings
57.
Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age
Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age 4.13 avg rating — 2,896 ratings
57.
The Complete Maus
The Complete Maus 4.58 avg rating — 245,655 ratings
57.
The Tolstoys: Twenty-Four Generations of Russian History
The Tolstoys: Twenty-Four Generations of Russian History 4.19 avg rating — 16 ratings
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The Shadow of a Dream: Economic Life and Death in the South Carolina Low Country, 1670-1920
The Shadow of a Dream: Economic Life and Death in the South Carolina Low Country, 1670-1920 2.90 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Plaintext: Essays
Plaintext: Essays 4.02 avg rating — 133 ratings
60.
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media 4.24 avg rating — 23,236 ratings
63.
Medieval England: From Hastings to Bosworth
Medieval England: From Hastings to Bosworth 3.67 avg rating — 21 ratings
63.
Mountain Charley: Or, the Adventures of Mrs. E. J. Guerin, Who Was Thirteen Years in Male Attire (Western Frontier Library Vol. 40)
Mountain Charley: Or, the Adventures of Mrs. E. J. Guerin, Who Was Thirteen Years in Male Attire (Western Frontier Library Vol. 40) 3.43 avg rating — 21 ratings
63.
Intoxication: The Universal Drive for Mind-Altering Substances
Intoxication: The Universal Drive for Mind-Altering Substances 4.14 avg rating — 214 ratings
66.
Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution
Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution 4.03 avg rating — 6,179 ratings
66.
Jean-Paul Sartre: A Life
Jean-Paul Sartre: A Life 3.79 avg rating — 237 ratings
66.
Who Really Discovered America?
Who Really Discovered America? 3.38 avg rating — 16 ratings
69.
The Reluctant King: The Life and Reign of George VI, 1895-1952
The Reluctant King: The Life and Reign of George VI, 1895-1952 4.15 avg rating — 529 ratings
69.
War's Unwomanly Face
War's Unwomanly Face 4.51 avg rating — 37,427 ratings
71.
The Crusades: A Short History
The Crusades: A Short History 3.68 avg rating — 566 ratings
71.
My War Diary: Lebanon, June 5-July 1, 1982
My War Diary: Lebanon, June 5-July 1, 1982 4.23 avg rating — 13 ratings
73.
The Day the Universe Changed
The Day the Universe Changed 4.21 avg rating — 2,071 ratings
73.
A New History of Korea
A New History of Korea 3.72 avg rating — 89 ratings
75.
Black Masters: A Free Family of Color in the Old South
Black Masters: A Free Family of Color in the Old South 3.93 avg rating — 82 ratings
75.
Brothers and Keepers: A Memoir
Brothers and Keepers: A Memoir 3.86 avg rating — 1,129 ratings
77.
Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Nineties
Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Nineties 4.28 avg rating — 2,919 ratings
77.
Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties
Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties 4.07 avg rating — 982 ratings
79.
The Year of Three Kings, 1483
The Year of Three Kings, 1483 3.71 avg rating — 68 ratings
79.
More Work For Mother: The Ironies Of Household Technology From The Open Hearth To The Microwave
More Work For Mother: The Ironies Of Household Technology From The Open Hearth To The Microwave 4.07 avg rating — 410 ratings
81.
The Crusades Through Arab Eyes
The Crusades Through Arab Eyes 4.20 avg rating — 10,231 ratings
81.
The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself
The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself 4.11 avg rating — 11,776 ratings
83.
The Minoan world
The Minoan world 3.91 avg rating — 23 ratings
83.
Janet Frame: An Autobiography (Autobiography, #1-3)
Janet Frame: An Autobiography (Autobiography, #1-3) 4.21 avg rating — 2,516 ratings
85.
The Etruscans
The Etruscans 3.93 avg rating — 57 ratings
85.
Daybook: The Journal of an Artist
Daybook: The Journal of an Artist 4.19 avg rating — 1,111 ratings
87.
Journey to Nowhere: A New World Tragedy
Journey to Nowhere: A New World Tragedy 4.26 avg rating — 81 ratings
88.
Aké: The Years of Childhood
Aké: The Years of Childhood 3.86 avg rating — 1,977 ratings
89.
An African in Greenland
An African in Greenland 4.10 avg rating — 1,992 ratings
90.
Alice James
Alice James 3.85 avg rating — 182 ratings
91.
When Rabbit Howls
When Rabbit Howls 4.05 avg rating — 17,789 ratings