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The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody: Great Figures of History Hilariously Humbled
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3.92 avg rating — 2,626 ratings
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1066 and All That: A Memorable History of England
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3.92 avg rating — 3,445 ratings
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The Cartoon History of the Universe I, Vol. 1-7: From the Big Bang to Alexander the Great (The Cartoon History of the Universe, #1)
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4.27 avg rating — 3,557 ratings
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Terry Jones' Medieval Lives
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4.02 avg rating — 2,944 ratings
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Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (War Memoirs, #1)
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4.04 avg rating — 8,759 ratings
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1000 Years of Annoying the French
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4.05 avg rating — 4,414 ratings
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Mussolini: His Part In My Downfall (War Memoirs, #4)
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4.24 avg rating — 2,184 ratings
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Bill Nye's Comic History Of England (1906)
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3.21 avg rating — 109 ratings
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The Partly Cloudy Patriot
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3.87 avg rating — 28,639 ratings
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The History of England
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3.87 avg rating — 2,433 ratings
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An Utterly Impartial History of Britain or 2000 Years of Upper Class Idiots In Charge
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3.98 avg rating — 2,706 ratings
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It All Started With Stones and Clubs: Being a Short History of War and Weaponry from Earliest Times to the Present, Noting the Gratifying Progress Made
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4.02 avg rating — 65 ratings
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The Cartoon History of the Modern World Part 1: From Columbus to the U.S. Constitution (The Cartoon History of the Modern World, #1)
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4.20 avg rating — 1,132 ratings
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The Cartoon History of the United States
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3.96 avg rating — 973 ratings
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Mostly Rapscallions
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3.80 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Assassination Vacation
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3.93 avg rating — 47,063 ratings
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The Cartoon History of the Universe II, Vol. 8-13: From the Springtime of China to the Fall of Rome (The Cartoon History of the Universe, #2)
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4.30 avg rating — 1,942 ratings
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Up Front
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4.44 avg rating — 1,562 ratings
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The Cartoon History of the Universe III: From the Rise of Arabia to the Renaissance (The Cartoon History of the Universe, #3)
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4.31 avg rating — 2,157 ratings
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Mental Floss Presents Forbidden Knowledge: A Wickedly Smart Guide to History's Naughtiest Bits
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3.95 avg rating — 827 ratings
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The Cartoon History of the Modern World Part 2: From the Bastille to Baghdad (The Cartoon History of the Modern World, #2)
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4.32 avg rating — 715 ratings
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The Measly Middle Ages (Horrible Histories, #11)
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3.98 avg rating — 2,681 ratings
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Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up
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3.99 avg rating — 17,060 ratings
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Once More, From the Beginning
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3.49 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady's Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners
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3.82 avg rating — 9,123 ratings
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Blackadder: The Whole Damn Dynasty, 1485-1917
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4.47 avg rating — 2,346 ratings
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Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
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4.10 avg rating — 25,011 ratings
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Terry Jones' Barbarians
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3.98 avg rating — 985 ratings
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'Rommel?' 'Gunner Who?': A Confrontation in the Desert
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4.17 avg rating — 3,038 ratings
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It All Started with Columbus
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4.13 avg rating — 173 ratings
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Monty: His Part In My Victory (War Memoirs, #3)
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4.17 avg rating — 2,202 ratings
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Our Dumb Century: The Onion Presents 100 Years of Headlines from America's Finest News Source
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4.14 avg rating — 13,135 ratings
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The Mental Floss History of the World: An Irreverent Romp through Civilization's Best Bits
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3.89 avg rating — 2,524 ratings
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Bastards & Boneheads: Canada’s Glorious Leaders, Past and Present
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4.09 avg rating — 286 ratings
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Bill Nye's Comic History of the United States
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3.07 avg rating — 204 ratings
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Bill Mauldin's Army: Bill Mauldin's Greatest World War II Cartoons
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4.32 avg rating — 165 ratings
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Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States
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3.95 avg rating — 5,829 ratings
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Die Laughing: War Humour From WW1 To Present Day
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4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Fearless: Powerful Women of History
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4.05 avg rating — 21 ratings
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2066 and All That: Memorable Modern History from the Suffragettes to Saddam and Beyond
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3.50 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Charles_HRH's Guide to Great Britishness
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3.69 avg rating — 77 ratings
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Step One: Killing Hitler
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3.75 avg rating — 12 ratings
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History Retweets Itself: Texas Edition
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3.90 avg rating — 31 ratings
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My Lady Jane: The Not Entirely True Story (The Lady Janies, #1)
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 80,083 ratings
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Kings and Queens
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4.23 avg rating — 115 ratings
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A Short History of Drunkenness
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3.96 avg rating — 4,027 ratings
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Me and Caesar: The Lost Chronicle
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Ask the Past: Pertinent and Impertinent Advice from Yesteryear
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3.92 avg rating — 264 ratings
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Stick a Flag in It: 1,000 Years of Bizarre History from Britain and Beyond
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4.08 avg rating — 420 ratings
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100 of the Worst Ideas in History: Humanity's Thundering Brainstorms Turned Blundering Brain Farts
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3.32 avg rating — 360 ratings
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Ungovernable: The Victorian Parent's Guide to Raising Flawless Children
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3.63 avg rating — 1,135 ratings
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Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
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4.13 avg rating — 28,079 ratings
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How to Survive History: How to Outrun a Tyrannosaurus, Escape Pompeii, Get Off the Titanic, and Survive the Rest of History's Deadliest Catastrophes
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4.05 avg rating — 2,622 ratings
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The Mysteries of History: Unravelling the Truth from the Myths of Our Past
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3.64 avg rating — 252 ratings
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Unruly: A History of England's Kings and Queens
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4.13 avg rating — 28,079 ratings
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New Texas History Movies
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4.19 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Bad Days in History: A Gleefully Grim Chronicle of Misfortune, Mayhem, and Misery for Every Day of the Year
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3.73 avg rating — 2,010 ratings
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Working IX to V: Orgy Planners, Funeral Clowns, and Other Prized Professions of the Ancient World
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3.59 avg rating — 366 ratings
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Dirty Bertie: An English King Made in France
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3.92 avg rating — 243 ratings
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The Pessimist's Guide to History: An Irresistible Guide to Compendium of Catastrophes, Barbarities, Massacres and Mayhem
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3.63 avg rating — 586 ratings
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A Brief and Irreverent History of Bengal
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3.86 avg rating — 14 ratings
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English History Made Brief, Irreverent and Pleasurable
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3.64 avg rating — 1,690 ratings
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Weird-o-pedia: The Ultimate Book of Surprising Strange and Incredibly Bizarre Facts About (Supposedly) Ordinary Things
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3.68 avg rating — 371 ratings
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The Book of Margery Kempe
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3.30 avg rating — 4,826 ratings
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4,000 Years of Uppity Women: Rebellious Belles, Daring Dames, and Headstrong Heroines Through the Ages
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3.49 avg rating — 636 ratings
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The General Danced at Dawn
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4.19 avg rating — 473 ratings
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Uppity Women of Shakespearean Times
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3.66 avg rating — 129 ratings
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Queen Victoria was amused
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4.06 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Uppity Women of the New World
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3.76 avg rating — 242 ratings
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It All Started With Eve
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4.05 avg rating — 107 ratings
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Uppity Women of the Renaissance
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3.87 avg rating — 279 ratings
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It All Started With Marx: A Brief and Objective History of Russian Communism, The Objective Being to Leave Not One Stone, But Many, Unturned, To ... Stalin, Malenkov, Khrushchev, and Others
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4.03 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Comic Book History of Comics: Birth of a Medium
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4.12 avg rating — 680 ratings
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Uppity Women of Ancient Times
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3.62 avg rating — 542 ratings
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It All Started With Hippocrates--A Mercifully Brief History of Medicine
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3.96 avg rating — 57 ratings
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God Mocks: A History of Religious Satire from the Hebrew Prophets to Stephen Colbert
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3.70 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Uppity Women of Medieval Times
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3.76 avg rating — 1,044 ratings
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It All Started With Nudes: An Artful History of Art
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3.93 avg rating — 15 ratings
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The 20th Century in Cartoons
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3.50 avg rating — 50 ratings
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Cape Cod Confidential: True Tales of Murder, Crime, and Scandal from the Pilgrims to the Present
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to U.S. History, Graphic Illustrated
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3.58 avg rating — 36 ratings
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The Mental Floss History of the United States: The (Almost) Complete and (Entirely) Entertaining Story of America
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4.04 avg rating — 1,043 ratings
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The Cartoon History of Time
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3.92 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Pilgrim Confidential: Shocking True Stories of the Pilgrims in the Strange New World
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3.73 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Last in Their Class: Custer, Pickett and the Goats of West Point
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3.93 avg rating — 76 ratings
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Mein Rant: A Summary in Light Verse of 'Mein Kampf'
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3.86 avg rating — 35 ratings
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A Dog's History of America: How Our Best Friend Explored, Conquered, and Settled a Continent
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3.50 avg rating — 96 ratings
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Hammer & Tickle: A History of Communism Told Through Communist Jokes
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3.48 avg rating — 318 ratings
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Taxes, the Tea Party, and Those Revolting Rebels: A History in Comics of the American Revolution
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3.75 avg rating — 91 ratings
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Astral Weeks: A Secret History of 1968
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3.69 avg rating — 1,188 ratings
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Hammer and Tickle Clandestine Laughter in the Soviet Empire
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3.67 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The Ungentlemanly Art: A History of American Political Cartoons,
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4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Past Imperfect: History According to the Movies
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3.61 avg rating — 216 ratings
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Drawn & Quartered: The History of American Political Cartoons
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4.10 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Bloody British History: Liverpool
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4.04 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Dave Barry's History of the Millennium
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3.59 avg rating — 1,455 ratings
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History Laid Bare: Love, Sex & Perversity from the Ancient Etruscans to Warren G. Harding
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3.79 avg rating — 177 ratings
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Mud & Guts: A Look at the Common Soldier of the American Revolution
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3.94 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Stop Me If You've Heard This: A History and Philosophy of Jokes
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3.35 avg rating — 450 ratings
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The Taking of K-129: How the CIA Used Howard Hughes to Steal a Russian Sub in the Most Daring Covert Operation in History
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4.19 avg rating — 2,165 ratings
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