History
The past comes alive through the pivotal moments, groundbreaking ideas, and remarkable individuals that have shaped our world. Here you'll find compelling accounts of everything from ancient philosophy to modern economics, from social movements to technological transformation, all carefully examined through the lens of time.
History Book Summaries
The Forest People
Anthropology
Africa
Ethnography
United States of Distraction
Media Manipulation in Post-Truth America (And What We Can Do About It)
Politics
History
American
How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps
Politics
History
Philosophy
The Original Black Elite
Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era
History
Race
Biography
The Pioneers
The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
History
American History
Historical
The Age of Reason
Philosophy
Religion
Classics
Who Rules the World?
Politics
History
Philosophy
Influence Empire
The Story of Tencent and China's Tech Ambition
Business
China
Technology
The Origin of Language
How We Learned to Speak and Why
Science
Language
History
Blood and Iron
The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918
History
Germany
European History
The Strategy of Denial
American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict
Politics
China
History
Women's Work
The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times
History
Feminism
Womens
The Austrian Theory of the Trade Cycle and Other Essays
Economics
Philosophy
Politics
The Professor and the Madman
A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
History
Biography
Language
Authoritarian Nightmare
Trump and His Followers
Politics
Psychology
History
Children of the Matrix
Conspiracy Theories
History
Politics
The Control Revolution
Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society
History
Technology
Economics
Just Add Water
My Swimming Life
Memoir
Sports
Biography
After the Fall
The Rise of Authoritarianism in the World We've Made
Politics
History
American
The Wars of Gods and Men
History
Mythology
Aliens
The Scramble for Africa
The White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912
History
Africa
World History
The Archaic Revival
Philosophy
Psychology
Spirituality
When We Were the Kennedys
A Memoir from Mexico, Maine
Memoir
Book Club
Biography
The Social Conquest of Earth
Science
History
Biology
Bailout Nation
How Greed and Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street and Shook the World Economy
Economics
Finance
Business
God
The Most Unpleasant Character in All Fiction
Religion
Atheism
Philosophy
曾国藩传
History
Biography
Deep Undercover
My Secret Life and Tangled Allegiances as a KGB Spy in America
History
Biography
Espionage
Radical Inclusion
What the Post-9/11 World Should Have Taught Us About Leadership
Leadership
Business
Military Fiction
Tacitus' Annals
History
Conversations of Socrates
Philosophy
Classics
History
Spy Schools
How the CIA, FBI, and Foreign Intelligence Secretly Exploit America's Universities
History
Politics
Education
All Consuming
Why We Eat the Way We Eat Now
Food
History
Essays
Against the Web
A Cosmopolitan Answer to the New Right
Politics
Philosophy
Essays
The Age of Diagnosis
How Our Obsession with Medical Labels Is Making Us Sicker
Science
Psychology
Health
Misquoting Truth
A Guide to the Fallacies of Bart Ehrman's "Misquoting Jesus"
Religion
Theology
Christianity
White Rage
The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
History
Race
Politics
Code Warriors
NSA's Code Breakers and the Secret Intelligence War Against the Soviet Union
History
Espionage
Politics
1494
How a Family Feud in Medieval Spain Divided the World in Half
History
Spain
Politics
The Encyclopedia of Witches and Witchcraft
Witchcraft
Reference
Paganism
Jesus and the Jewish Roots of Mary
Unveiling the Mother of the Messiah
Catholic
Theology
Religion
After the Fall
Being American in the World We've Made
Politics
History
Memoir
The Secret Token
Myth, Obsession, and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke
History
American History
Mystery
Pyrrhonism
How the Ancient Greeks Reinvented Buddhism
Philosophy
Buddhism
History
The Secret Destiny of America
History
Occult
Philosophy
Tits Up
What Sex Workers, Milk Bankers, Plastic Surgeons, Bra Designers, and Witches Tell Us about Breasts
Feminism
History
Science
Heaven and Hell
A History of the Afterlife
Religion
History
Philosophy
Smoke and Ashes
A Writer's Journey through Opium's Hidden Histories
History
China
India
Arguably
Selected Essays
Essays
Politics
Philosophy
Paper Promises
Debt, Money, and the New World Order
Economics
Finance
History
