Histories


The Histories
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
The Man in the High Castle
1776
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
The Guns of August
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
The Six Wives of Henry VIII
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Salt: A World History
A Short History of Nearly Everything
History of the Peloponnesian War
Mary, Queen of Scots by Kathryn LaskyThe Wild Queen by Carolyn MeyerSpy for the Queen of Scots by Theresa BreslinMy Contrary Mary by Cynthia HandThe Prophecy by Lily Blake
Mary, Teen of Scots
23 books — 17 voters
Monster, She Wrote by Lisa KrögerPaperbacks from Hell by Grady HendrixBehind the Horror by Lee MellorMonsters in the Movies by John  LandisLovecraft by Keith Giffen
Nonfiction About Horror Media
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My Lady Jane by Cynthia HandWitchfall by Victoria LambMary, Bloody Mary by Carolyn MeyerBeware, Princess Elizabeth by Carolyn MeyerElizabeth I by Kathryn Lasky
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Ben Okri
Nations and peoples are largely the stories they feed themselves. If they tell themselves stories that are lies, they will suffer the future consequences of those lies. If they tell themselves stories that face their own truths, they will free their histories for future flowerings.
Ben Okri, Birds of Heaven

Roxane Gay
Nostalgia is powerful. It is natural, human to long for the past, particularly when we can remember our histories as better than they were.
Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist

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