World War I & II
The conflicts that reshaped nations, borders, and the course of history
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The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan. Norton & Company, Inc., 2018.
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A Vision for Change and the Future of America. Hachette Books, 2017
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The True Story of a Real Fake. Broadway Books, 2002.
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David Leavitt
Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer. Atlas Books, 2006.
Deborah Blum
Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York. Penguin Books, 2010.
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The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women. Sourcebooks, 2017.
Nate Pedersen
A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything. Workman Publishing, 2017.
Sam Kean
And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements. Little, Brown and Company, 2010.
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The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, from the Civil War to the 21st Century. Beacon Press, 2023.
Olivia Campbell
How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine. Park Row Books, 2021.
Mark Miodownik
Exploring the Marvelous Materials that Shape Our Man-Made World. Mariner Books, 2015.
Tom Vanderbilt
Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us). Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.
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The Brief Life and Towering Exploits of History’s Greatest Conqueror as Told by His Original Biographers. Penguin Books, 2004.
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A Biography of George Washington. Viking, 2020.
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The Stories in Our Genes. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2016.
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On Impatient Love, Long Life, and Good Witches. Ballantine Books, 2021.
Lisa Mosconi
A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2014.
Robert Greene
The 48 Laws of Power. Penguin Books, 1998.
Costas Lapavitsas
Crisis in the Eurozone. Verso, 2012.
Thomas E. Ricks
What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country. Harper, 2020.
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How Trade Shaped the World. Atlantic Monthly Press, 2008.
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Man’s Search for Meaning. Washington Square Press, 1985.
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The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan. Norton & Company, Inc., 2018.
John Lewis
A Vision for Change and the Future of America. Hachette Books, 2017
Frank Abagnale
The True Story of a Real Fake. Broadway Books, 2002.
Nikil Saval
A Secret History of the Workplace. Public Doubleday, 2014.
Sonia Shah
Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond. Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.
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His Life and Universe. Simon & Schuster, 2007.
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A Biography of George Washington. Viking, 2020.
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