POTUS #15: the bachelor president who came before Lincoln and may really be the worst.


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A Palestinian point of view where history seems to stop at 1948


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A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War by Amanda Foreman

A history of the American Civil War in terms of British involvement. Extensive involvement.

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Concise and comprehensive history of Israel, good for understanding historical facts but won't untangle the conflicts.


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Conquests And Cultures: An International History by Thomas Sowell ( Read more... )

Portrait of a Priestess: Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece by Joan Breton Connelly

A bit of a misnomer. The author is pulling together evidence over the entire known history of ancient Greek, Homeric, Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic and even Roman, right up to the conversion, and seeing what is known or can be deduced, including changes.

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The history of a banking empire, and of modern Western banking.


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POTUS #14: Not quite the most boring or incompetent President ever, but he might have been the handsomest.


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Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year by Eleanor Parker

A review of all that Anglo-Saxon literature has to tell us about the year and the seasons.

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Arranged Companions: Marriage and Intimacy in Qing China by Weijing Lu ( Read more... )