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microhistories: “how do you even know that??”

microhistory: the intensive historical investigation of a well defined smaller unit of research (such as an event, community, individual or a settlement); it aspires to "ask large questions in small places"

Cursed Objects: Strange but True Stories of the World's Most Infamous Items

Salt: A World History

Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin

CSI Told You Lies: Giving victims a voice through forensics.

Cursed Objects: Strange but True Stories of the World's Most Infamous Items

Salt: A World History

Mary Karr's Required Reading: Memoirs & Hybrids

Abridged list curated by Mary Karr in Art of Memoir (2015). I've selected only the books she's denoted to be "better written" as the original list is seven pages long.

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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)

Before Night Falls

The Sum of Our Days

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)

Before Night Falls

Footy Fans

A list of recommended soccer/football books.

The Club: How the English Premier League Became the Wildest, Richest, Most Disruptive Force in Sports

The Ball is Round: A Global History of Soccer

Soccernomics: Why England Loses; Why Germany, Spain, and France Win; and Why One Day Japan, Iraq, and the United States Will Become Kings of the World's Most Popular Sport

Among the Thugs

The Club: How the English Premier League Became the Wildest, Richest, Most Disruptive Force in Sports

The Ball is Round: A Global History of Soccer

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