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Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World af Steven Johnson
2106
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story af Nikole Hannah-Jones
2021
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake af Tiya Miles
2021
Queen Victoria's Matchmaking: The Royal Marriages that Shaped Europe af Deborah Cadbury
2017
The Gulf: The Making of An American Sea af Jack E. Davis
2017
The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South af John T. Edge
2017
The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia af Masha Gessen
2017
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI af David Grann
2017
The Home That Was Our Country: A Memoir of Syria af Alia Malek
2017
The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits af Tiya Miles
2017
Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II af Liza Mundy
2017
Thunder in the Mountains: Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard, and the Nez Perce War af Daniel J. Sharfstein
2017
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets af Svetlana Alexievich
2016
The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West af Peter Cozzens
2016
Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier's Story af Matti Friedman
2016
On Trails: An Exploration af Robert Moor
2016
Millennium: From Religion to Revolution: How Civilization Has Changed Over a Thousand Years af Ian Mortimer
2016
The Age of Acquiescence: The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power af Steve Fraser
2015
Avenue of Spies: A True Story of Terror, Espionage, and One American Family's Heroic Resistance in Nazi-Occupied Paris af Alex Kershaw
2015
The Wright Brothers af David McCullough
2015
The Witches: Salem, 1692 af Stacy Schiff
2015
Lines of Descent: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Emergence of Identity (The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures) af Kwame Anthony Appiah
2014
The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words, 1000 BCE – 1492 CE af Simon Schama
2014
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette af Hampton Sides
2014
Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp af Lawrence Wright
2014
Wilson af A. Scott Berg
2013
One Summer: America, 1927 af Bill Bryson
2013
Thank You for Your Service af David Finkel
2013
The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism af Doris Kearns Goodwin
2013
The Great War : July 1, 1916 : the first of the Battle of the Somme - an illustrated panorama af Joe Sacco
2013
The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari af Paul Theroux
2013
The Mansion of Happiness: A History of Life and Death af Jill Lepore
2012
The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris af David McCullough
2011
Jerusalem - Biografien af Simon Sebag-Montefiore
2011
Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation af Andrea Wulf
2011
George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I af Miranda Carter
2010
Haren med de ravgule øjne af Edmund De Waal
2010
The Grace of Silence: A Memoir af Michele Norris
2010
Every Man in This Village is a Liar: An Education in War af Megan Stack
2010
The Third Reich at War af Richard J. Evans
2009
America's Prophet af Bruce Feiler
2009
Vicksburg, 1863 af Winston Groom
2009
The Spiders of Allah: Travels of an Unbeliever on the Frontline of Holy War af James Hider
2009
Den amerikanske borgerkrig af John Keegan
2009
The Man Who Sold the World: Ronald Reagan and the Betrayal of Main Street America af William Kleinknecht
2009
Middling Folk: Three Seas, Three Centuries, One Scots-Irish Family af Linda H. Matthews
2009
Poems from the Women's Movement af Honor Moore
2009
The Remains of Company D af James Carl Nelson
2009
Champlain's Dream af David Hackett Fischer
2008
Crossing the Continent 1527-1540: The Story of the First African-American Explorer of the American South af Robert Goodwin
2008
Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45 af Max Hastings
2008
The Soiling of Old Glory: The Story of a Photograph That Shocked America af Louis P. Masur
2008
In Reckless Hands: Skinner v. Oklahoma and the Near-Triumph of American Eugenics af Victoria F. Nourse
2008
The Crusades, Christianity, and Islam (Bampton Lectures in America) af Jonathan Riley-Smith
2008
Now the Drum of War: Walt Whitman and His Brothers in the Civil War af Robert Roper
2008
The Wordy Shipmates af Sarah Vowell
2008
Massacre at Mountain Meadows af Ronald W. Walker
2008
Bitterly Divided: The South's Inner Civil War af David Williams
2008
Zoobestyrerens kone af Diane Ackermann
2007
American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic af Joseph J. Ellis
2007
The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War af David Halberstam
2007
Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts af Clive James
2007
Europa En rejse gennem det 20. århundrede af Geert Mak
2007
The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography af Graham Robb
2007
The Politics of Heaven: America in Fearful Times af Earl Shorris
2007
Head and Heart: American Christianities af Garry Wills
2007
Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894 af Daniel James Brown
2006
Better for All the World: The Secret History of Forced Sterilization and America's Quest for Racial Purity af Harry Bruinius
2006
Simple Courage: A True Story of Peril on the Sea af Frank Delaney
2006
Building Jerusalem: The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City af Tristram Hunt
2006
Look Homeward America: In Search of Reactionary Radicals and Front-Porch Anarchists af Bill Kauffman
2006
A History of the End of the World af Jonathan Kirsch
2006
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War af Nathaniel Philbrick
2006
The English Civil War: A People's History af Diane Purkiss
2006
The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East af Sandy Tolan
2006
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present af Harriet A. Washington
2006
Shane Comes Home af Rinker Buck
2005
Divided by God: America's Church-State Problem--and What We Should Do About It af Noah Feldman
2005
Grant and Sherman: The Friendship That Won the Civil War af Charles Bracelen Flood
2005
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln af Doris Kearns Goodwin
2005
New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan af Jill Lepore
2005
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus af Charles C. Mann
2005
1776 af David McCullough
2005
Ten Hours Until Dawn: The True Story of Heroism and Tragedy Aboard the Can Do af Michael J. Tougias
2005
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History af John M. Barry
2004
Passages to Freedom: The Underground Railroad in History and Memory af David Blight
2004
The Oregon Trail: An American Saga af David Dary
2004
Washington's Crossing af David Hackett Fischer
2004
Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier af Alexandra Fuller
2004
Aspirin: The Remarkable Story of a Wonder Drug af Diarmuid Jeffreys
2004
The Mold in Dr. Florey's Coat: The Story of the Penicillin Miracle af Eric Lax
2004
Flesh in the Age of Reason: The Modern Foundations of Body and Soul af Roy Porter
2004
The Whole Equation: A History of Hollywood af David Thomson
2004
Born Fighting af James Webb
2004
Infidels: A History of the Conflict Between Christendom and Islam af Andrew Wheatcroft
2004
Gulag : historien om de sovjetiske straffelejre af Anne Applebaum
2003
Invented Eden: The Elusive, Disputed History of the Tasaday af Robin Hemley
2003
Quinine: Malaria and the Quest for a Cure That Changed the World af Fiammetta Rocco
2003
Poets of World War II af Harvey Shapiro
2003
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 af Simon Winchester
2003
West of Kabul, East of New York: An Afghan American Story af Tamim Ansary
2002
Out of the Blue: The Story of September 11, 2001, from Jihad to Ground Zero af Richard Bernstein
2002
Larry Burrows: Vietnam af Larry Burrows
2002
Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before af Tony Horwitz
2002
Measuring America: How an Untamed Wilderness Shaped the United States and Fulfilled the Promise of Democracy af Andro Linklater
2002
Sea Room: An Island Life in the Hebrides af Adam Nicolson
2002
The Tsar's Last Armada af Constantine Pleshakov
2002
Lusitania: An Epic Tragedy af Diana Preston
2002
The Turk: The Life and Times of the Famous Eighteenth-Century Chess-Playing Machine af Tom Standage
2002
Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill af Robert Whitaker
2002
London: The Biography af Peter Ackroyd
2001
Black Athena Writes Back: Martin Bernal Responds to His Critics af Martin Gardiner Bernal
2001
Wittgenstein's Poker : The Story of a Ten-minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers af David Edmonds
2001
This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland af Gretel Ehrlich
2001
Schnitzler's Century: The Making of Middle-Class Culture, 1815-1914 af Peter Gay
2001
Diamond: The History of a Cold-Blooded Love Affair af Matthew Hart
2001
Pickled, potted, and canned : how the art and science of food preserving changed the world af Sue Shephard
2001
Images from the Storm af Robert Knox Sneden
2001
A President in the Family: Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings, and Thomas Woodson af Byron W. Woodson Sr.
2001
American Colonies: The Settling of North America af Alan Taylor
2001
Venice: Lion City: The Religion of Empire af Garry Wills
2001
Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766 af Fred Anderson
2000
The Battle for God af Karen Armstrong
2000
From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life—1500 to the Present af Jacques Barzun
2000
Fra et solbagt kontinent af Bill Bryson
2000
The Great Arc: The Dramatic Tale of How India Was Mapped and Everest Was Named af John Keay
2000
The Blood Runs Like a River Through My Dreams af Nasdijj
2000
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex af Nathaniel Philbrick
2000
Leap af Terry Tempest Williams
2000
Modern times, modern places af Peter Conrad
1999
Jesus: One Hundred Years Before Christ af Alvar Ellegård
1999
The First World War af John Keegan
1999
Home Town af Tracy Kidder
1999
Years of Renewal af Henry Kissinger
1999
Kaiser Wilhelm II: Germany's Last Emperor af John Van der Kiste
1999
The Basque History of the World: The Story of a Nation af Mark Kurlansky
1999
All Souls: A Family Story from Southie af Michael Patrick MacDonald
1999
In Nevada: The Land, the People, God, and Chance af David Thomson
1999
A Necessary Evil: A History of American Distrust of Government af Garry Wills
1999

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