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1. Destiny Disrupted by Tamim Ansay

History with a Muslim focus.

2. 1491 New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

A look at America before the Europeans showed up.

3. Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

While this book is more about the environment, it is extremely important to history as well.

4. The Analects by Confucius

5. The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

6. The Art of War by SUn Tzu

7. The Baurnama edited by W. M. Thackston Jr.

memoir of the founder of the Mughal Empire.

8. Lose Your Mother by Saidiya Hartman

Part memoir, part history, part travel. Hartman's journey is about finding her past and confronting slavery.

9. A Century of Dishonor by Helen Hunt Dishonor

Jackson was one of the first authors (white, established) to publicly  call out the US government's treatment of Native Americans.

10 A Very Expensive Poison by Luke Harding

Concerns the famous poisoning case of Litvienko

11. The Romavs by Simon Sebag Montefiore

A good history of the Tsars

12. Northern Armageddon by D Peter MacLeod

Battle of Quebec

13. As Long as the Grass Grows by Dina Gilio-Whitaker

Native Americans and history of environment/land justice

14.  Spying on the South, Voyage Long and Strange,  and Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz 

15. Chaucer's Knight and Who Murdered Chaucer by Terry Jone

The first changed Chaucer criticism, the second is really interesting.

16. Trials of Oscar Wilde by Hyde

They have been added to the doc. 

1. Landscapes of the Imagination Series published by Oxford University Press

This series takes a region or a river and details the culture and history of the place.  I am not sure how many books are in it but there seems to be around 20.

2. Cityscapes series by OUP

Like the Landscapes series by deals with cities.  At least 10 books in the series.

3. Wonders of the World Series by Various (Harvard University Press)

The series is in part edited by Mary Beard and includes a book length history of a various places or items.  Such as the Buddas that were destroyed by the Taliban.

4.  Portraits and Ways of Seeing both by John Berger

I admit these books a pushing the history description a bit, but both are important.  Portraits because of the variety of art dealt with, and Ways of Seeing because it talks about how we look at things.

5. Planet of Slums by Mike Davis

Groundbreaking work about slums.

6. No Turning Back: The Extinction Scenario by Richard Elllis

More natural history but discusses animals that have become or are going Extinct

7. In Search of Dracula by Radu Florescu

Really good book about the real Dracula.

8. Ghostland by Colin Dickey

Dickey's book takes the most famous ghost stories in American history and shows the truth of the stories.

9. The Prince by Nicolo Machiavelli

I can't believe I forgot this one.

I'll add some more later.

(These have been added to the Google Doc) 

The best story in this collection is the first by Ken Liu.  Liu makes good use of golem lore and applies it to a family vacation.  It was also wonderful that the chosen one was a girl.

Esther Fresiner's "Service Charge" and J. W. Alden's "Item Not Described" will both do your soul a world of good, esp. if you are fed up with dealing  with people.

Reading Jim C Hines' short story about a superhero battling cancer was, well, strange and moving considering Hines' wife's ongoing treatment for the illness.  (Kick butt Amy).  But it was a great rip off of Superman.

Fran Wilde's short story about toddler is great and includes a wonderful bit about teens.

If you like Lovecraft, check out "The Girl with the Dagon Tattoo".

The scariest story (and a funny one too) was "On Safari" which is basically what Alexa and Suri are going to do to us. 

There is another bunch of Endeavour Media for free.

Also

CRE Mob

Nukes

CRE WWI

CRE Ugihars

Thanks to the wonderful Themis-Athena, we have been able to enter all the books so far.  We have a total of 629.  You can see the complete list here.

We are putting out another call out for books.

In particular, we are looking for more books about religion other than Christianity, South America, Africa (we really need these), Australia.

We are also accepting what could loosely be described as history and travel.  Think of Tony Horowitz for example.  Or the Lost City Of Z.

If you had history books on Moonlight's 1001 list, would you like us to add them to the history list?

Thanks.

The creator of the Inspector Montalbano novels died this week.  He was 93.

This should be my last one, unless we end up needing more books or I discover I left something out.

1. King, Greg.  The Assassination

2. Butcher, Catherine. Edith Cavall

3. Preston, Diana.  Lusitana

4. Tuchman, Barbara. Works

5. MacMillan, mararget.  Paris 1919

6. Englund, Peter.  The Beauty and the Sorrow

WWII

1. Letts, Elizabeth.  The Perfect Horse

2. Gross, Jan Tomez.  Neighbors

3.Davies, Norman.  Rising 44

4. Holliday, Laurel Children in the Holocaust

5.Gilbert, Martin.  The Holocaust

6. Kramer, Rita.  Flames in the Field

7. Nicholas, Lynn.  Works

One book about art, another about children

8. Greene, Joshua.  Witnesses

Interviews from the Shoah Foundation

9.Zapruder, Alexandra.  Salvaged Pages

Diaries other than Frank

10. Friedman, Saul. Nazi Germany and the Jews

11. Snyder, Timothy.  Bloodlands

12.Ten Boom Corrie.  The Hiding Place

13.Prose, Francine.  Anne Frank The Book, The life, The afterlife

14. Mendelsohn, Daniel.  The lost

This book is actually part memoir, part quest to find out what happened to Mendelsohn's family.  But it really highlights how much was destroyed in terms of culture and life.

15. Tec, Nehma.  Defiance

16. Lee, Carol Ann. Hidden life of Otto Frank

1. Marozzi, Justin. Baghdad.

2. Pages, Meiram. From Martyr to Murderer

about the assassins

3. Dalley, Stephaine.  The Mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon.

4. Smith, Jay.  Monsters of the Gevaudans

5. Levy, Adrian.  The Siege

Mumbai attacks

6. Chamberlain, Joshua How the Horse Shaped Civilization

1.Tooze, Adam.  Crashedf

about the financial collapse

2. Mayne, Alan  Slums

3. Kalder, Daniel.  The Inferenal Library

about the literature of dictators.

4. Lord, Walter  Titanic books

5. Manguel Alberto.  A History of Reading.

6. Fisch, Joerg. Burning Women

about the burning of widows.

7. Fagan, Brain. Elixir: Water

8. MacGregor, Neil.  History of the World in 100 objects

10. Eisner, Will.  The Plot

About how the fake Protocols.

11. Baez, Fernando. A universal History of the Destruction of Books

12. Knuth, Rebecca LIberacide

13. Resendez, Andres.  The Other Slavery

14. Brown, Nancy. Ivory Vikings

15. Jones, Gwyn. History of the Vikings

16.Magnusson, Magnus.  Scotland A History of a Nation

17. MacCulloch, Diarmaid. The Reformation

18. Evans, Richard J.  Works

19. Bullock, Alain.  Hitler and Stalin 

20. Lipstadt, Deborah.  Denying the Holocaust and Denial (History on Trial) and Antisemitism

21. Keefe, Patrick Radden.  Say Nothing

22. Rhode, David. Endgame

about Srebenica

23. FitzSimons, Peter.  Batavia

24. Shorto, Russell Amsterdam

1. Breton, Pierre.  Works

I haven't read everything by him, but he is the HIstorian of Canada.

2. Sebba, Anne Les Parisennes

3. Curtis, Michael.  Verdict on Vichy

4. Beckman, Jonathan.  How to Ruin a Queen

5. Alleg, Henri.  The Question

about the use of torture 

6. Darton, Robert Works.

7. Delbo, Charlotte.  Auschwitz and after

8. Talaga, Tanya Seven Fallen Feathers

9. MacDonald, Laura.  Curse of the Narrows

10. Beattie, Owen.  Frozen in Time

Franklin expedition's fate

11. Cooper, Afua.  Hanging of Angelique

Angelique was a slave in Montreal and accused of setting fire to the city.

12.Scanlan, Lawrence. Little Horse of Iron

about Canada's national horse

1. The Shire Series by various

Okay I haven't read every book that Shire has put out.  But I doubt that there is a topic in British history that they don't cover.

2. Robertson, Geoffrey.  Trial of Lady Chatterly

An account of the famous trial.

3. Flanders, Judith.  The Victorian City  and Invention of Murder

4. Lindsay, Karen.  Divorced, Beheaded, Survivied

Feminist look at Henry VIII's wives.

5.  Thomas, Keith.  Religion and the Decline of Magic

6. Escott, Beryl.  Heroines of SOE

Brief biographies of the women who worked for SOE

7. Seacole, Mary.  The Wonderful Adventures of

Seacole worked as a nurse during the Crimean War, but she didn't work with Florence because her color was all wrong for the lady of the lamp.  But Seacole was much loved by the men.

8. Weir, Alison.  The Lady in the Tower

Weir's best work about the days leading up to Anne Boleyn's death.

9. Cannon, John.  Oxford Illustrated History of the British Monarchy

10. Somerset, Anne.  Unnatural Murder

about the murder of Thomas Overbury.

11, Tinniswood, Adrian.  The Verneys

12. Warnicke, Retha.  Rise and Fall of Anne Boleyn

13.Ives,  Eric.  Anne Boleyn

1. Lowen, James.  Works.

Best know for his books dealing with errors in textbooks and historical places, Lowen is always a pleasure to read.

2. Perdue, Therda.  North American Indians A Very Short Introduction.

short but packed with information.

3. Baldwin, James.  The Fire Next Time

If you are an American, you should read it.

4.  Kurin, Richard.  A History of American in 100 Objects.

What the title says.  Really fun read too.

5. Krist, Gary.  Works

Krist tends to focus on crime, but his books are a joy to read.

6. Grua, David W.  Surviving Wounded Knee

About Native American and various movements.

7.  Garrow, David.  Liberty and Sexuality.

History of abortion rights in America.

8. Fenn, Elizabeth.  Encounters at the End of the World

History of Manden people.

9. Steward, David O.  Summer of 1787

10. Grimes, Sandra. Circle of Treason

About the hunt and capture for Ames.

11. Lee, Nancy Howell.  Search for an Abortionist.

Study about abortion when it was illegal.

12. Rowland, Debran,  Boundaries of Her Body

A history of women and law.

13. Miles, Tiya.  Tales from the Haunted South

14. Zinn, Howard.  A People's History of the United States

15. Brown, Dee.  Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

16. Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne.  An Indigenous People's History of the United States

17. Field, Douglas.  A Historical Guide to James Baldwin.

1. Berlin, Ira.  Many Thousands Gone.

A history of the first two centuries of slavery in the US.

2. Blight, David.  Frederick Douglass.  Race and Reunion.

Blight's biography about Douglass deserves all the praise that it has gained.  Race and Reunion is about how the South manipulated how the war was remembered.  

3. Wells-Barnett, Ida B.  Complete Works

Wells-Barnett is responsible for the first major study/report of lynching in the South, among other things.  There really should be a statue for her on the National Mall.

4. Sublette, Ned.  The Great American Slave Coast

I don't know if this is the best study of the slave trade in the US, but it sure feels like it.

5. Foner, Eric.  Complete Works.

When a fellow teacher found out I was teaching Tony Horowitz's Confederates in the Attic, he said to read all of Foner.  He was right.

6. Gordon-Reed, Annette.  Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings

Gordon-Reed's book pretty much settled the whole Hemings' relationship with Jefferson question.

7. Robertson, Davis.  Denmark Vesey

An account of the first slave rebellion in the US.

8. Breen, Patrick.  This Land Shall be Deluged in Blood.

Great book about Nat Turner.

9. Swanson, James L.  Manhunt.

Thrilling account of the hunt for Booth.

10. Bapist, Edward.  The Half that Has Never Been Told

Slavery and the connection to US economic development.

11. Kendi, Ibram X.  Stamped from the Beginning

A study of racism in America

12. Rothstein, Richard.  The Color of Law

Details the use of law to promote racial housing policies

13. Slave Narratives

I thought long and hard about this.  The one good thing about ereaders is that it is far, far easier to read first person narratives then ever before.  And to recommend some over others is a bit tricky, but  the following should be read:

Harriet Jacobs Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

One of the few accounts from a woman.

The Life of Josiah Henson

His story inspired Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Barracoon - Zora Neal Hurston

Hurston worked collecting oral history during the Great Depression.  This is an important manuscript because the man was one the last people taken from Africa and kidnapped to the states.

Solomen Northup - 12 Years a Slave and Frederick Douglass's works.

Readable.

A video to make you glad.

One video to make you mad.

1. Afghanistan A Modern History by Angelo Rasanayagam

Pretty much what the title says. Great for understanding the whole rise of the Taliban.

(Modern)

2. Elephant Company by Vicki Croke

Details an escape from Burma when the Japanese invade.

(WWII, Burma)

3. Unbound by Dean King

About the women of the Long March

(women, china)

4.The Rape of Nanking by Isis Chang

A difficult read but details what the Japanese did to the Chinese during WWII.

(WII, China)

5. Midnight Furies by Nisid Hajari

About the partition of India and Pakistan.

(Modern)

6. Ghosts of the Tsunami by Richard Lloyd Parry

Account of the Japanese Tsunami

7. A Savage War of Peace by Alistair Horne

Account of Aligers fight for independence.

8. Adam Hochschild  -Works

I have about four books to add by him, and I doubt I am the only one.

9. Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela

His memoir.  (South Africa)

10. Oxford Illustrated History of Ancient Egypt by Ian Shaw

(Ancient Egypt)