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History (from Greek ἱστορία - historia, meaning "inquiry, knowledge acquired by investigation") is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians. It is a field of research which uses a narrative to examine and analyse the sequence of events, and it sometimes attempts to investigate objectively the patterns of cause and effect that determine events. Historians debate the nature of history and its usefulness. This includes discu ...more

1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in History--and How It Shattered a Nation
The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery
The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
The Monsters We Make: Murder, Obsession, and the Rise of Criminal Profiling
The Girl Bandits of the Warsaw Ghetto: The True Story of Five Courageous Young Women Who Sparked an Uprising
Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy
Lincoln's Ghost: Houdini's War on Spiritualism and the Dark Conspiracy Against the American Presidency
The Great Contradiction: The Tragic Side of the American Founding
Useless Etymology: Offbeat Word Origins for Curious Minds
The Once and Future Riot
The Nine Lives of Christopher Columbus
The Grave Robber: The Biggest Stolen Artifacts Case in FBI History and the Bureau’s Quest to Set Things Right
Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat to) the Modern Dictionary
Three Roads to Gettysburg: Meade, Lee, Lincoln, and the Battle That Changed the War, the Speech That Changed the Nation
The Vanishing of Lake Peigneur: A Graphic Novel Based on a True Story
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    Circle of Days
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    A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
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    Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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