Historical Humor

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The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody: Great Figures of History Hilariously Humbled
The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody: Great Figures of History Hilariously Humbled 3.92 avg rating — 2,611 ratings
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1066 and All That: A Memorable History of England
1066 and All That: A Memorable History of England 3.92 avg rating — 3,428 ratings
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The Cartoon History of the Universe I, Vol. 1-7: From the Big Bang to Alexander the Great (The Cartoon History of the Universe, #1)
The Cartoon History of the Universe I, Vol. 1-7: From the Big Bang to Alexander the Great (The Cartoon History of the Universe, #1) 4.27 avg rating — 3,550 ratings
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Terry Jones' Medieval Lives
Terry Jones' Medieval Lives 4.02 avg rating — 2,939 ratings
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Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (War Memoirs, #1)
Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (War Memoirs, #1) 4.04 avg rating — 8,723 ratings
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1000 Years of Annoying the French
1000 Years of Annoying the French 4.05 avg rating — 4,390 ratings
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Mussolini: His Part In My Downfall (War Memoirs, #4)
Mussolini: His Part In My Downfall (War Memoirs, #4) 4.24 avg rating — 2,175 ratings
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Bill Nye's Comic History Of England (1906)
Bill Nye's Comic History Of England (1906)
by: Bill Nye
3.21 avg rating — 109 ratings
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The Partly Cloudy Patriot
The Partly Cloudy Patriot 3.87 avg rating — 28,615 ratings
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The History of England
The History of England 3.87 avg rating — 2,391 ratings
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An Utterly Impartial History of Britain or 2000 Years of Upper Class Idiots In Charge
An Utterly Impartial History of Britain or 2000 Years of Upper Class Idiots In Charge 3.98 avg rating — 2,698 ratings
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It All Started With Stones and Clubs: Being a Short History of War and Weaponry from Earliest Times to the Present, Noting the Gratifying Progress Made
It All Started With Stones and Clubs: Being a Short History of War and Weaponry from Earliest Times to the Present, Noting the Gratifying Progress Made 4.02 avg rating — 65 ratings
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The Cartoon History of the Modern World Part 1: From Columbus to the U.S. Constitution (The Cartoon History of the Modern World, #1)
The Cartoon History of the Modern World Part 1: From Columbus to the U.S. Constitution (The Cartoon History of the Modern World, #1) 4.20 avg rating — 1,131 ratings
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The Cartoon History of the United States
The Cartoon History of the United States 3.96 avg rating — 971 ratings
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Mostly Rapscallions
Mostly Rapscallions 3.80 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Assassination Vacation
Assassination Vacation 3.93 avg rating — 47,006 ratings
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The Cartoon History of the Universe II, Vol. 8-13: From the Springtime of China to the Fall of Rome (The Cartoon History of the Universe, #2)
The Cartoon History of the Universe II, Vol. 8-13: From the Springtime of China to the Fall of Rome (The Cartoon History of the Universe, #2) 4.30 avg rating — 1,934 ratings
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Up Front
Up Front 4.45 avg rating — 1,556 ratings
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The Cartoon History of the Universe III: From the Rise of Arabia to the Renaissance (The Cartoon History of the Universe, #3)
The Cartoon History of the Universe III: From the Rise of Arabia to the Renaissance (The Cartoon History of the Universe, #3) 4.31 avg rating — 2,152 ratings
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Mental Floss Presents Forbidden Knowledge: A Wickedly Smart Guide to History's Naughtiest Bits
Mental Floss Presents Forbidden Knowledge: A Wickedly Smart Guide to History's Naughtiest Bits 3.95 avg rating — 825 ratings
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The Cartoon History of the Modern World Part 2: From the Bastille to Baghdad (The Cartoon History of the Modern World, #2)
The Cartoon History of the Modern World Part 2: From the Bastille to Baghdad (The Cartoon History of the Modern World, #2) 4.32 avg rating — 714 ratings
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The Measly Middle Ages
The Measly Middle Ages 3.98 avg rating — 2,671 ratings
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Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up
Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up 3.99 avg rating — 16,932 ratings
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Once More, From the Beginning
Once More, From the Beginning 3.49 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady's Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners
Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady's Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners 3.82 avg rating — 9,083 ratings
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Blackadder: The Whole Damn Dynasty, 1485-1917
Blackadder: The Whole Damn Dynasty, 1485-1917 4.47 avg rating — 2,344 ratings
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Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War 4.10 avg rating — 24,890 ratings
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Terry Jones' Barbarians
Terry Jones' Barbarians 3.98 avg rating — 985 ratings
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'Rommel?' 'Gunner Who?': A Confrontation in the Desert
'Rommel?' 'Gunner Who?': A Confrontation in the Desert 4.17 avg rating — 3,022 ratings
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It All Started with Columbus
It All Started with Columbus 4.13 avg rating — 173 ratings
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Monty: His Part In My Victory (War Memoirs, #3)
Monty: His Part In My Victory (War Memoirs, #3) 4.17 avg rating — 2,184 ratings
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Our Dumb Century: The Onion Presents 100 Years of Headlines from America's Finest News Source
Our Dumb Century: The Onion Presents 100 Years of Headlines from America's Finest News Source 4.14 avg rating — 13,138 ratings
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The Mental Floss History of the World: An Irreverent Romp through Civilization's Best Bits
The Mental Floss History of the World: An Irreverent Romp through Civilization's Best Bits
by: Erik Sass
3.89 avg rating — 2,509 ratings
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Bastards & Boneheads: Canada’s Glorious Leaders, Past and Present
Bastards & Boneheads: Canada’s Glorious Leaders, Past and Present 4.09 avg rating — 286 ratings
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Bill Nye's Comic History of the United States
Bill Nye's Comic History of the United States
by: Bill Nye
3.07 avg rating — 205 ratings
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Bill Mauldin's Army: Bill Mauldin's Greatest World War II Cartoons
Bill Mauldin's Army: Bill Mauldin's Greatest World War II Cartoons 4.32 avg rating — 165 ratings
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Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States
Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States 3.95 avg rating — 5,817 ratings
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Die Laughing: War Humour From WW1 To Present Day
Die Laughing: War Humour From WW1 To Present Day 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Fearless: Powerful Women of History
Fearless: Powerful Women of History 4.05 avg rating — 21 ratings
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2066 and All That: Memorable Modern History from the Suffragettes to Saddam and Beyond
2066 and All That: Memorable Modern History from the Suffragettes to Saddam and Beyond 3.50 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Charles_HRH's Guide to Great Britishness
Charles_HRH's Guide to Great Britishness 3.69 avg rating — 77 ratings
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Step One: Killing Hitler
Step One: Killing Hitler 3.75 avg rating — 12 ratings
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History Retweets Itself: Texas Edition
History Retweets Itself: Texas Edition 3.90 avg rating — 31 ratings
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My Lady Jane: The Not Entirely True Story (The Lady Janies, #1)
My Lady Jane: The Not Entirely True Story (The Lady Janies, #1) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 79,051 ratings
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Kings and Queens
Kings and Queens 4.23 avg rating — 115 ratings
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A Short History of Drunkenness
A Short History of Drunkenness 3.97 avg rating — 3,973 ratings
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Me and Caesar: The Lost Chronicle
Me and Caesar: The Lost Chronicle really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Ask the Past: Pertinent and Impertinent Advice from Yesteryear
Ask the Past: Pertinent and Impertinent Advice from Yesteryear 3.92 avg rating — 263 ratings
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Stick a Flag in It: 1,000 Years of Bizarre History from Britain and Beyond
Stick a Flag in It: 1,000 Years of Bizarre History from Britain and Beyond 4.08 avg rating — 417 ratings
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100 of the Worst Ideas in History: Humanity's Thundering Brainstorms Turned Blundering Brain Farts
100 of the Worst Ideas in History: Humanity's Thundering Brainstorms Turned Blundering Brain Farts 3.33 avg rating — 358 ratings
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Ungovernable: The Victorian Parent's Guide to Raising Flawless Children
Ungovernable: The Victorian Parent's Guide to Raising Flawless Children 3.64 avg rating — 1,130 ratings
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Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens 4.13 avg rating — 26,851 ratings
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How to Survive History: How to Outrun a Tyrannosaurus, Escape Pompeii, Get Off the Titanic, and Survive the Rest of History's Deadliest Catastrophes
How to Survive History: How to Outrun a Tyrannosaurus, Escape Pompeii, Get Off the Titanic, and Survive the Rest of History's Deadliest Catastrophes 4.05 avg rating — 2,527 ratings
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The Mysteries of History: Unravelling the Truth from the Myths of Our Past
The Mysteries of History: Unravelling the Truth from the Myths of Our Past 3.64 avg rating — 251 ratings
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Unruly: A History of England's Kings and Queens
Unruly: A History of England's Kings and Queens 4.13 avg rating — 26,851 ratings
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New Texas History Movies
New Texas History Movies 4.19 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Bad Days in History: A Gleefully Grim Chronicle of Misfortune, Mayhem, and Misery for Every Day of the Year
Bad Days in History: A Gleefully Grim Chronicle of Misfortune, Mayhem, and Misery for Every Day of the Year 3.73 avg rating — 1,989 ratings
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Working IX to V: Orgy Planners, Funeral Clowns, and Other Prized Professions of the Ancient World
Working IX to V: Orgy Planners, Funeral Clowns, and Other Prized Professions of the Ancient World 3.59 avg rating — 366 ratings
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Dirty Bertie: An English King Made in France
Dirty Bertie: An English King Made in France 3.93 avg rating — 242 ratings
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The Pessimist's Guide to History: An Irresistible Guide to Compendium of Catastrophes, Barbarities, Massacres and Mayhem
The Pessimist's Guide to History: An Irresistible Guide to Compendium of Catastrophes, Barbarities, Massacres and Mayhem 3.62 avg rating — 585 ratings
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A Brief and Irreverent History of Bengal
A Brief and Irreverent History of Bengal 3.86 avg rating — 14 ratings
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English History Made Brief, Irreverent and Pleasurable
English History Made Brief, Irreverent and Pleasurable 3.64 avg rating — 1,663 ratings
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Weird-o-pedia: The Ultimate Book of Surprising Strange and Incredibly Bizarre Facts About (Supposedly) Ordinary Things
Weird-o-pedia: The Ultimate Book of Surprising Strange and Incredibly Bizarre Facts About (Supposedly) Ordinary Things 3.69 avg rating — 369 ratings
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The Book of Margery Kempe
The Book of Margery Kempe 3.30 avg rating — 4,810 ratings
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4,000 Years of Uppity Women: Rebellious Belles, Daring Dames, and Headstrong Heroines Through the Ages
4,000 Years of Uppity Women: Rebellious Belles, Daring Dames, and Headstrong Heroines Through the Ages 3.49 avg rating — 635 ratings
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The General Danced at Dawn
The General Danced at Dawn 4.19 avg rating — 470 ratings
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Uppity Women of Shakespearean Times
Uppity Women of Shakespearean Times 3.66 avg rating — 128 ratings
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Queen Victoria was amused
Queen Victoria was amused 4.06 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Uppity Women of the New World
Uppity Women of the New World 3.76 avg rating — 242 ratings
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It All Started With Eve
It All Started With Eve 4.07 avg rating — 106 ratings
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Uppity Women of the Renaissance
Uppity Women of the Renaissance 3.87 avg rating — 279 ratings
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It All Started With Marx: A Brief and Objective History of Russian Communism, The Objective Being to Leave Not One Stone, But Many, Unturned, To ... Stalin, Malenkov, Khrushchev, and Others
It All Started With Marx: A Brief and Objective History of Russian Communism, The Objective Being to Leave Not One Stone, But Many, Unturned, To ... Stalin, Malenkov, Khrushchev, and Others 4.03 avg rating — 58 ratings
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Comic Book History of Comics: Birth of a Medium
Comic Book History of Comics: Birth of a Medium 4.12 avg rating — 677 ratings
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Uppity Women of Ancient Times
Uppity Women of Ancient Times 3.62 avg rating — 542 ratings
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It All Started With Hippocrates--A Mercifully Brief History of Medicine
It All Started With Hippocrates--A Mercifully Brief History of Medicine 3.96 avg rating — 57 ratings
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God Mocks: A History of Religious Satire from the Hebrew Prophets to Stephen Colbert
God Mocks: A History of Religious Satire from the Hebrew Prophets to Stephen Colbert 3.70 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Uppity Women of Medieval Times
Uppity Women of Medieval Times 3.76 avg rating — 1,044 ratings
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It All Started With Nudes: An Artful History of Art
It All Started With Nudes: An Artful History of Art 3.93 avg rating — 15 ratings
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The 20th Century in Cartoons
The 20th Century in Cartoons 3.50 avg rating — 50 ratings
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Cape Cod Confidential: True Tales of Murder, Crime, and Scandal from the Pilgrims to the Present
Cape Cod Confidential: True Tales of Murder, Crime, and Scandal from the Pilgrims to the Present really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to U.S. History, Graphic Illustrated
The Complete Idiot's Guide to U.S. History, Graphic Illustrated 3.58 avg rating — 36 ratings
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The Mental Floss History of the United States: The (Almost) Complete and (Entirely) Entertaining Story of America
The Mental Floss History of the United States: The (Almost) Complete and (Entirely) Entertaining Story of America
by: Erik Sass
4.03 avg rating — 1,031 ratings
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The Cartoon History of Time
The Cartoon History of Time 3.92 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Pilgrim Confidential: Shocking True Stories of the Pilgrims in the Strange New World
Pilgrim Confidential: Shocking True Stories of the Pilgrims in the Strange New World 3.73 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Last in Their Class: Custer, Pickett and the Goats of West Point
Last in Their Class: Custer, Pickett and the Goats of West Point 3.95 avg rating — 75 ratings
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Mein Rant: A Summary in Light Verse of 'Mein Kampf'
Mein Rant: A Summary in Light Verse of 'Mein Kampf' 3.88 avg rating — 34 ratings
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A Dog's History of America: How Our Best Friend Explored, Conquered, and Settled a Continent
A Dog's History of America: How Our Best Friend Explored, Conquered, and Settled a Continent
by: Mark Derr
3.51 avg rating — 95 ratings
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Hammer & Tickle: A History of Communism Told Through Communist Jokes
Hammer & Tickle: A History of Communism Told Through Communist Jokes
by: Ben Lewis
3.47 avg rating — 316 ratings
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Taxes, the Tea Party, and Those Revolting Rebels: A History in Comics of the American Revolution
Taxes, the Tea Party, and Those Revolting Rebels: A History in Comics of the American Revolution
by: Stan Mack
3.75 avg rating — 89 ratings
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Astral Weeks: A Secret History of 1968
Astral Weeks: A Secret History of 1968 3.70 avg rating — 1,181 ratings
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Hammer and Tickle Clandestine Laughter in the Soviet Empire
Hammer and Tickle Clandestine Laughter in the Soviet Empire 3.67 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The Ungentlemanly Art: A History of American Political Cartoons,
The Ungentlemanly Art: A History of American Political Cartoons, 4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Past Imperfect: History According to the Movies
Past Imperfect: History According to the Movies 3.61 avg rating — 216 ratings
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Drawn & Quartered: The History of American Political Cartoons
Drawn & Quartered: The History of American Political Cartoons 4.10 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Bloody British History: Liverpool
Bloody British History: Liverpool
by: Ken Pye
4.04 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Dave Barry's History of the Millennium
Dave Barry's History of the Millennium 3.58 avg rating — 1,450 ratings
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History Laid Bare: Love, Sex & Perversity from the Ancient Etruscans to Warren G. Harding
History Laid Bare: Love, Sex & Perversity from the Ancient Etruscans to Warren G. Harding 3.79 avg rating — 177 ratings
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Mud & Guts: A Look at the Common Soldier of the American Revolution
Mud & Guts: A Look at the Common Soldier of the American Revolution 3.94 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Stop Me If You've Heard This: A History and Philosophy of Jokes
Stop Me If You've Heard This: A History and Philosophy of Jokes
by: Jim Holt
3.35 avg rating — 449 ratings
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The Taking of K-129: How the CIA Used Howard Hughes to Steal a Russian Sub in the Most Daring Covert Operation in History
The Taking of K-129: How the CIA Used Howard Hughes to Steal a Russian Sub in the Most Daring Covert Operation in History
by: Josh Dean
4.19 avg rating — 2,153 ratings
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