history books

January 6th is now History so how do you think it will be written about in the History books, it's the closets we have come to Civil War since 1865?

A friend is asking, and I don't specialize in that area, and any books I recommend will likely be too technical. What is prompting their request is a visit to the Uboat exhibit at the Chicago Museum (??). She says, and I quote, "Doug and I had no idea any of that happened." Thanks ETA: I...

I just read The Guns of August. Great WWI book covering the leadup to the war, and the first month. I want to know more. What I'd really like to read is Hew Strachan's 3-volume work on it. But he's only finished the first one as of 2003. What I'm looking for is something with historical detail...

Where history is concerned, I am a Marxist. I believe that history is about class war and that the historical dialectic is the best explanation of the past. I reject as facile and bourgeois the idea that history is just a bunch of famous people doing things. Unfortunately, I have found very...

I'm looking for some history books on the following subjects: Alexander the Great The Celts Byzantium The Persians Chartage I'm searching through Amazon, etc, but it's hard to know what's good, ie as up-to-date and fact-based as possible. So if any of you have any suggestions, I would...

Hiya everybody, I'm looking to read up on some areas of history which I know less than I would like. Specifically, I'd like to know more about Pre-Columbian American civilizations and European history before about 1200 AD, excluding the Greco-Roman empires. Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks...

I'm looking for a good WWII book that pretty much covers the war from beginning to end. Any suggestions? Thanks.

So I watched Schindler's List on saturday and I've decided to once and for all fill my gap of ignorance about WW2, Nazi Germany, the Holocaust and the state of the world during that 1939-1945 stretch. I've had The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer on my bookshelf for years yet...