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History (from Greek ?στορ?α - historia, meaning "inquiry, knowledge acquired by investigation") is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians. It is a field of research which uses a narrative to examine and analyse the sequence of events, and it sometimes attempts to investigate objectively the patterns of cause and effect that determine events. Historians debate the nature of history and its usefulness. This includes discu ...more

Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
They Came for the Schools: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms
The Year of Living Constitutionally: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Constitution's Original Meaning
The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers
Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic
The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective
Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World
The Klansman’s Son: My Journey from White Nationalism to Antiracism
Paradise of the Damned: The True Story of an Obsessive Quest for El Dorado, the Legendary City of Gold
The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt: The Women Who Created a President
The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No
Wide Awake: The Forgotten Force that Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil War
Baseball: The Movie
I Will Show You How It Was: The Story of Wartime Kyiv
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    Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
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    Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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    A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
    The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
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    A Short History of Nearly Everything
    SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
    The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
    1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
    Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
    Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
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    The Guns of August
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