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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

books about a really niche topic in history

i love when historical nonfiction is hyperspecific so

Double Victory: A Multicultural History of America in World War II

The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century

Double Victory: A Multicultural History of America in World War II

The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox

oddly specific history

Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs

The Phone Book: The Curious History of the Book That Everyone Uses But No One Reads

Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

books about sex work

books about sex work and what it entails

Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

The Perfumed Garden

For the Love of Men: A New Vision for Mindful Masculinity

A Lover's Pinch: A Cultural History of Sadomasochism

Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

The Perfumed Garden

see the world like an anthropologist

by courtneymosierwarren

Non-textbooks to help you see the world like an anthropologist and understand culture a little better

Into the War

The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion

Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese

The Basque History of the World

Into the War

The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion

Hot Girls Hate The Patriarchy

by booknerdcoco

Pretty covers, powerful women, zero apologies.

A Curious History of Sex

Weyward

Lessons in Chemistry

Girl, Woman, Other

A Curious History of Sex

Weyward

Feminist Fiction & Non-fiction

by TheReadingJournaler

Fiction and non-fiction feminist books

Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood

It's Not Hysteria: Everything You Need to Know About Your Reproductive Health (But Were Never Told)

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982

Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood

It's Not Hysteria: Everything You Need to Know About Your Reproductive Health (But Were Never Told)

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