Most Read This Week In History

History (from Greek ἱστορία - 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

Most Read This Week Tagged "History"

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece

A Treacherous Engagement (Gentlemen of London #1)

A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

Cilka's Journey (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #2)

Three Sisters (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #3)

The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World

The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War

Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty

Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America

All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

The Nazi Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill

Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family

Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues

Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism

The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War

Unscripted: The Epic Battle for a Media Empire and the Redstone Family Legacy

Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships

The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America

Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom

There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History

The Watchmaker's Daughter: The True Story of World War II Heroine Corrie ten Boom

A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II

Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century

Freezing Order: A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath

The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear

Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown

Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization

And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle

The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession

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“ Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting. ”
― Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

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