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A Curious History of Sex
Kate Lister
Double Victory: A Multicultural History of America in World War II
Ronald Takaki
The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox
Jennifer Lee Carrell
A Short History of Drunkenness: How, Why, Where, and When Humankind Has Gotten Merry from the Stone Age to the Present
Mark Forsyth
Josephine Baker's Secret War: The African American Star Who Fought for France and Freedom
Hanna Diamond
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
Rashid Khalidi
How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
Jason F. Stanley
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
Iris Chang
Now the Hell Will Start: One Soldier's Flight from the Greatest Manhunt of World War II
Brendan I. Koerner
Convicting the Mormons: The Mountain Meadows Massacre in American Culture
Janiece Johnson
The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean
David Abulafia
A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East
David Fromkin
The Witch: A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present
Ronald Hutton
The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century
Joel F. Harrington
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Black Tudors: The Untold Story
Miranda Kaufmann
The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis
Maria Smilios
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann
The Evil Necessity: British Naval Impressment in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World (Early American Histories)
Denver Brunsman
Devil's Gate: Brigham Young and the Great Mormon Handcart Tragedy
David Roberts
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
Jon Krakauer
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
When We Rise: My Life in the Movement
Cleve Jones
The Shortest History of Sex: Two Billion Years of Procreation and Recreation (The Shortest History Series)
David Baker
Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich
Norman Ohler
The Devil in the White City
Erik Larson
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
Kate Moore
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
Adam Higginbotham
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