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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by Nathaniel Philbrick (shelved 2 times as -history)
avg rating 4.17 — 4,430 ratings — published 2000
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A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by Bill Bryson (shelved 2 times as -history)
avg rating 4.10 — 20,070 ratings — published 2003
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (Paperback)
by Dee Brown (shelved 2 times as -history)
avg rating 4.22 — 4,692 ratings — published 1970
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Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War (Hardcover)
by Nathaniel Philbrick (shelved 2 times as -history)
avg rating 3.74 — 3,952 ratings — published 2006
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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
by Simon Winchester (shelved 2 times as -history)
avg rating 3.74 — 10,357 ratings — published 1998
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From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life 1500 to the Present (Paperback)
by Jacques Barzun (shelved 2 times as -history)
avg rating 4.22 — 702 ratings — published 2000
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Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation (Paperback)
by Joseph J. Ellis (shelved 2 times as -history)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,431 ratings — published 2000
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The Warrior Queens (Women in History)
by Antonia Fraser (shelved 1 time as -history)
avg rating 3.73 — 419 ratings — published 1988
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The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language (Paperback)
by Melvyn Bragg (shelved 1 time as -history)
avg rating 3.73 — 278 ratings — published 2003
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The History of the Peloponnesian War (Paperback)
by Thucydides (shelved 1 time as -history)
avg rating 3.71 — 1,665 ratings — published 1
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Undaunted Courage (Paperback)
by Stephen E. Ambrose (shelved 1 time as -history)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,267 ratings — published 1996
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Thank You, Mr. President: A White House Notebook (Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Era of the New Deal)
by A. Smith (shelved 1 time as -history)
avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 1975
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Forget Me Not: A Gallery of Friendship and Album Quilts (Hardcover)
by Jane Bentley Kolter (shelved 1 time as -history)
avg rating 3.00 — 2 ratings — published 1985
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The Age of Lincoln (Audio CD)
by Vernon Orville Burton (shelved 1 time as -history)
avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 2007
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Very Washington DC: A Celebration of the History and Culture of the Nation's Capital (Hardcover)
by Diana Hollingsworth Gessler (shelved 1 time as -history)
avg rating 3.67 — 5 ratings — published 2009
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Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years (Hardcover)
by David Talbot (shelved 1 time as -history)
avg rating 3.96 — 287 ratings — published 2007
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Presidential Voices: Speaking Styles from George Washington to George W. Bush (Paperback)
by Allan Metcalf (shelved 1 time as -history)
avg rating 3.17 — 8 ratings — published 2004
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History from the Heart: Quilt Paths Across Illinois (Hardcover)
by E. Duane Elbert (shelved 1 time as -history)
avg rating 3.50 — 2 ratings — published 1993
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Hearts and Hands: Women, Quilts, and the American Society (Paperback)
by Pat Ferrero (shelved 1 time as -history)
avg rating 4.50 — 5 ratings — published 2000
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Midnight Assassin: A Murder in America's Heartland (Hardcover)
by Patricia Bryan (shelved 1 time as -history)
avg rating 3.75 — 36 ratings — published 2005
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Mrs. Paine's Garage: And the Murder of John F. Kennedy (Paperback)
by Thomas Mallon (shelved 1 time as -history)
avg rating 3.54 — 37 ratings — published 2002
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Anonymous Was a Woman: A Celebration in Words and Images of Traditional American Art and the Women Who Made It (Paperback)
by Mirra Bank (shelved 1 time as -history)
avg rating 4.14 — 11 ratings — published 1995
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The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy (Paperback)
by William Strauss (shelved 1 time as -history)
avg rating 3.93 — 412 ratings — published 1997
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Disarmed and Dangerous: The Radical Lives and Times of Daniel and Philip Berrigan (Hardcover)
by Murray Polner (shelved 1 time as -history)
avg rating 3.92 — 22 ratings — published 1997
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Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War (Paperback)
by Tony Horwitz (shelved 1 time as -history)
avg rating 4.09 — 3,098 ratings — published 1998
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All the President's Men (Mass Market Paperback)
by Carl Bernstein (shelved 1 time as -history)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,586 ratings — published 1974
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1776 (Paperback)
by David McCullough (shelved 1 time as -history)
avg rating 4.00 — 14,878 ratings — published 2005
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 (P.S.)
by Simon Winchester (shelved 1 time as -history)
avg rating 3.71 — 1,914 ratings — published 2003
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Script and Scribble: The Rise and Fall of Handwriting (Hardcover)
by Kitty Burns Florey (shelved 1 time as -history)
avg rating 3.66 — 188 ratings — published 2008
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In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors (Paperback)
by Doug Stanton (shelved 1 time as -history)
avg rating 4.27 — 714 ratings — published 2001
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For the Glory of God: How Monotheism Led to Reformations, Science, Witch-Hunts, and the End of Slavery (Paperback)
by Rodney Stark (shelved 1 time as -history)
avg rating 3.82 — 46 ratings — published 2003
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How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe (Paperback)
by Thomas Cahill (shelved 1 time as -history)
avg rating 3.73 — 3,391 ratings — published 1995
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Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (Paperback)
by David Hackett Fischer (shelved 1 time as -history)
avg rating 4.09 — 435 ratings — published 1989
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Stonehenge Complete, Revised Edition (Paperback)
by Christopher Chippindale (shelved 1 time as -history)
avg rating 2.00 — 3 ratings — published 1994
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Magic, the Great Illusions Revealed and Explained (Hardcover)
by David H., Charney (shelved 1 time as -history)
avg rating 0.0 — 1 rating — published 1975
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An Underground Education (Paperback)
by Richard Zacks (shelved 1 time as -history)
avg rating 4.12 — 450 ratings — published 1997
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The Bhagavad Gita
by Anonymous (shelved 1 time as -history)
avg rating 3.88 — 3,188 ratings — published 500
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Magic: the great illusions revealed & explained (Hardcover)
by David H Charney (shelved 1 time as -history)
avg rating 0.0 — 1 rating — published 1976
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O Strange New World: American Culture, The Formative Years (Hardcover)
by Howard Mumford Jones (shelved 1 time as -history)
avg rating 3.00 — 9 ratings — published 1964
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The Collapse of the Third Republic: An Inquiry into the Fall of France in 1940 (Paperback)
by William L. Shirer (shelved 1 time as -history)
avg rating 3.96 — 39 ratings — published 1969
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The Story of the World: History for the Classical Child, Volume 4: The Modern Age: From Victoria's Empire to the End of the USSR (Paperback)
by Susan Wise Bauer (shelved 1 time as -history)
avg rating 4.07 — 83 ratings — published 2005
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1968: The World Transformed (Publications of the German Historical Institute)
by Daniel S. Mattern (shelved 1 time as -history)
avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published 1998
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The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age (Paperback)
by Simon Schama (shelved 1 time as -history)
avg rating 4.02 — 215 ratings — published 1987
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The Coming of the Greeks (Paperback)
by Robert Drews (shelved 1 time as -history)
avg rating 4.25 — 9 ratings — published 1988
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History of Religious Ideas (Paperback)
by Mircea Eliade (shelved 1 time as -history)
avg rating 4.00 — 27 ratings — published 1981
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Color: A Natural History of the Palette (Paperback)
by Victoria Finlay (shelved 1 time as -history)
avg rating 3.93 — 855 ratings — published 2002
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History of Religious Ideas, Volume 2: From Gautama Buddha to the Triumph of Christianity (History of Religious Ideas)
by Mircea Eliade (shelved 1 time as -history)
avg rating 4.20 — 64 ratings — published 1985
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A History of Religious Ideas: From Muhammad to the Age of Reforms (History of Religious Ideas) Vol.3
by Mircea Eliade (shelved 1 time as -history)
avg rating 4.18 — 46 ratings — published 1988
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Sophie's World (Paperback)
by Jostein Gaarder (shelved 1 time as -history)
avg rating 3.68 — 12,068 ratings — published 1991
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The Illustrated History of the Housewife, 1650-1950 (Paperback)
by Una A. Robertson (shelved 1 time as -history)
avg rating 4.25 — 5 ratings — published 1999
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