Understanding History

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A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present 4.08 avg rating — 259,714 ratings
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The Diary of a Young Girl
The Diary of a Young Girl 4.20 avg rating — 4,073,594 ratings
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus 4.05 avg rating — 93,187 ratings
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1776
1776 4.10 avg rating — 243,357 ratings
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
A Short History of Nearly Everything 4.22 avg rating — 412,858 ratings
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A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century 4.05 avg rating — 43,237 ratings
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The Guns of August
The Guns of August 4.18 avg rating — 82,609 ratings
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln 4.28 avg rating — 196,300 ratings
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The Complete Maus
The Complete Maus 4.58 avg rating — 245,696 ratings
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The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War
The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War 4.13 avg rating — 2,064 ratings
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The Histories
The Histories
by: Herodotus
4.01 avg rating — 54,683 ratings
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Peter the Great: His Life and World
Peter the Great: His Life and World 4.15 avg rating — 22,819 ratings
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Nicholas and Alexandra: The Classic Account of the Fall of the Romanov Dynasty
Nicholas and Alexandra: The Classic Account of the Fall of the Romanov Dynasty 4.23 avg rating — 29,465 ratings
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Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman 3.94 avg rating — 107,268 ratings
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Hiroshima
Hiroshima 4.04 avg rating — 86,447 ratings
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John Adams
John Adams 4.08 avg rating — 373,256 ratings
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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
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Ain't No Grave: The Life and Legacy of Brother Claude Ely
Ain't No Grave: The Life and Legacy of Brother Claude Ely 3.59 avg rating — 872 ratings
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The Declaration of Independence / The Constitution of the United States
The Declaration of Independence / The Constitution of the United States 4.44 avg rating — 26,983 ratings
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The Blood Never Dried: A People's History of the British Empire
The Blood Never Dried: A People's History of the British Empire 4.26 avg rating — 737 ratings
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History of the World
History of the World 4.08 avg rating — 2,491 ratings
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Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era 4.40 avg rating — 33,178 ratings
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Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic 4.23 avg rating — 25,522 ratings
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History
The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History 4.02 avg rating — 2,244 ratings
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Truman
Truman 4.17 avg rating — 90,311 ratings
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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 — 15,703 ratings
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The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580
The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580 4.26 avg rating — 1,242 ratings
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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
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The Johnstown Flood
The Johnstown Flood 4.13 avg rating — 24,632 ratings
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The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 4.23 avg rating — 13,399 ratings
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Conceived in Liberty Volumes I-IV
Conceived in Liberty Volumes I-IV 4.50 avg rating — 227 ratings
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The Assassination of the Archduke: Sarajevo 1914 and the Romance that Changed the World
The Assassination of the Archduke: Sarajevo 1914 and the Romance that Changed the World
by: Greg King
4.04 avg rating — 1,652 ratings
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The German Genius: Europe's Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution, and the Twentieth Century
The German Genius: Europe's Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution, and the Twentieth Century 4.18 avg rating — 1,435 ratings
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The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914 4.12 avg rating — 9,481 ratings
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The Anti-Federalist Papers
The Anti-Federalist Papers 4.14 avg rating — 583 ratings
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The Fall of Paris: The Siege and the Commune 1870-71
The Fall of Paris: The Siege and the Commune 1870-71 4.11 avg rating — 817 ratings
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Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War 3.89 avg rating — 45,342 ratings
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33 Questions About American History You're Not Supposed to Ask
33 Questions About American History You're Not Supposed to Ask 4.02 avg rating — 690 ratings
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The Wives of Henry VIII
The Wives of Henry VIII 4.11 avg rating — 18,970 ratings
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America's Great Depression
America's Great Depression 4.19 avg rating — 1,193 ratings
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Marie Antoinette: The Journey
Marie Antoinette: The Journey 3.94 avg rating — 38,048 ratings
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Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-69
Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-69 3.99 avg rating — 13,754 ratings
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The Case Against the Fed
The Case Against the Fed 4.20 avg rating — 1,226 ratings
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1939 - The War That Had Many Fathers: The Long Run-Up to the Second World War
1939 - The War That Had Many Fathers: The Long Run-Up to the Second World War 4.57 avg rating — 301 ratings
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On Fascism
On Fascism 3.95 avg rating — 641 ratings
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Als die Soldaten kamen: Die Vergewaltigung deutscher Frauen am Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs
Als die Soldaten kamen: Die Vergewaltigung deutscher Frauen am Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs 4.30 avg rating — 332 ratings
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Churchill's Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India During World War II
Churchill's Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India During World War II 4.18 avg rating — 961 ratings
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All the Countries: And the Few We Never Got Round To
All the Countries: And the Few We Never Got Round To 3.74 avg rating — 725 ratings
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Blood-red Desert Sand (Cassell Military Trade Books)
Blood-red Desert Sand (Cassell Military Trade Books) 4.32 avg rating — 22 ratings
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A History of the American People
A History of the American People 4.11 avg rating — 2,976 ratings
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Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution
Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution 4.03 avg rating — 6,179 ratings
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The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge 4.25 avg rating — 18,115 ratings
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Germania
Germania
by: Tacitus
3.88 avg rating — 1,902 ratings
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1215: The Year of Magna Carta
1215: The Year of Magna Carta 3.81 avg rating — 2,294 ratings
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Jewels of French History Books - The Lauragais Story
Jewels of French History Books - The Lauragais Story 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West
Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West 4.17 avg rating — 11,231 ratings
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Columbine
Columbine 4.29 avg rating — 99,749 ratings
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Thomas Jefferson: Writings
Thomas Jefferson: Writings 4.23 avg rating — 1,491 ratings
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Life in a Medieval City
Life in a Medieval City 3.84 avg rating — 3,835 ratings
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Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier
Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier 4.23 avg rating — 66,338 ratings
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The Fate of the Romanovs
The Fate of the Romanovs
by: Greg King
4.09 avg rating — 898 ratings
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The Vertigo Years: Europe 1900-1914
The Vertigo Years: Europe 1900-1914 4.03 avg rating — 1,419 ratings
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The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve
The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve 4.29 avg rating — 6,557 ratings
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A Concise History of the Crusades
A Concise History of the Crusades 4.02 avg rating — 422 ratings
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The First Century: Emperors, Gods and Everyman
The First Century: Emperors, Gods and Everyman really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 115 ratings
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History of Africa
History of Africa 3.76 avg rating — 322 ratings
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Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel: Technology and Invention in the Middle Ages
Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel: Technology and Invention in the Middle Ages 3.88 avg rating — 925 ratings
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Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King
Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King 3.87 avg rating — 7,980 ratings
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Seahenge: a quest for life and death in Bronze Age Britain
Seahenge: a quest for life and death in Bronze Age Britain 4.09 avg rating — 221 ratings
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American Wop - Beaver Buffalo Buttons Brass Boxing and Beer: That's why you're here!
American Wop - Beaver Buffalo Buttons Brass Boxing and Beer: That's why you're here!
by: Jack Tar
4.35 avg rating — 20 ratings
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A Brief History of Ancient Greece: Politics, Society and Culture
A Brief History of Ancient Greece: Politics, Society and Culture 3.81 avg rating — 453 ratings
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History of the War in South Africa 1899-1902 v. 1 (of 4) Compiled by Direction of His Majesty's Government
History of the War in South Africa 1899-1902 v. 1 (of 4) Compiled by Direction of His Majesty's Government 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Frederick the Great
Frederick the Great 3.80 avg rating — 511 ratings
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BLOOD IN ZION: How the Jewish Guerrillas Drove the British Out of Palestine
BLOOD IN ZION: How the Jewish Guerrillas Drove the British Out of Palestine 4.08 avg rating — 40 ratings
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A Night to Remember
A Night to Remember 4.09 avg rating — 27,693 ratings
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Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide
Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide 4.33 avg rating — 1,362 ratings
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Ashes And Blood: The British Army In South Africa, 1795 1914
Ashes And Blood: The British Army In South Africa, 1795 1914 4.26 avg rating — 23 ratings
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The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization and Cultural Change, 950 - 1350
The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization and Cultural Change, 950 - 1350 3.96 avg rating — 695 ratings
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Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War": How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World
Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War": How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World 4.19 avg rating — 1,968 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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Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62
Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62 4.07 avg rating — 4,974 ratings
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Investment in Blood: The True Cost of Britain’s Afghan War
Investment in Blood: The True Cost of Britain’s Afghan War 4.09 avg rating — 35 ratings
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The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians
The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians 4.15 avg rating — 4,269 ratings
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The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America's Finest Hour
The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America's Finest Hour 4.29 avg rating — 1,645 ratings
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In Search of Sacco and Vanzetti: Double Lives, Troubled Times, and the Massachusetts Murder Case That Shook the World
In Search of Sacco and Vanzetti: Double Lives, Troubled Times, and the Massachusetts Murder Case That Shook the World 3.81 avg rating — 106 ratings
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Debunking Holocaust Denial Theories
Debunking Holocaust Denial Theories 4.11 avg rating — 149 ratings
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The Age of Charisma: Leaders, Followers, and Emotions in American Society, 1870–1940
The Age of Charisma: Leaders, Followers, and Emotions in American Society, 1870–1940 it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Essential Writings
The Essential Writings
by: Epictetus
4.22 avg rating — 218 ratings
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Plagues and Peoples
Plagues and Peoples 3.87 avg rating — 4,937 ratings
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Nixon's Secrets: The Rise, Fall, and Untold Truth about the President, Watergate, and the Pardon
Nixon's Secrets: The Rise, Fall, and Untold Truth about the President, Watergate, and the Pardon 3.71 avg rating — 174 ratings
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Showdown at Little Big Horn
Showdown at Little Big Horn
by: Dee Brown
3.94 avg rating — 90 ratings
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Sawdust Caesar: The Untold History of Mussolini and Fascism
Sawdust Caesar: The Untold History of Mussolini and Fascism 4.06 avg rating — 17 ratings
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The American Revolution: Writings from the War of Independence 1775–1783
The American Revolution: Writings from the War of Independence 1775–1783 4.19 avg rating — 111 ratings
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The Strange Career of Jim Crow
The Strange Career of Jim Crow 4.14 avg rating — 3,184 ratings
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The Magnificent Century (The Plantagenets, #2)
The Magnificent Century (The Plantagenets, #2) 4.14 avg rating — 1,000 ratings
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
by: Dee Brown
4.26 avg rating — 99,687 ratings
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The Three Edwards (The Plantagenets, #3)
The Three Edwards (The Plantagenets, #3) 4.11 avg rating — 1,151 ratings
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
The Making of the Atomic Bomb 4.40 avg rating — 23,888 ratings
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Hamilton's Curse: How Jefferson's Arch Enemy Betrayed the American Revolution--and What It Means for Americans Today
Hamilton's Curse: How Jefferson's Arch Enemy Betrayed the American Revolution--and What It Means for Americans Today 4.04 avg rating — 494 ratings
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Letters from a Stoic
Letters from a Stoic
by: Seneca
4.33 avg rating — 52,586 ratings
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