History 645 books by Laura

#203

Mythical Zoo: Animals in Life, Legend and Literature

ByBoria Sax

2001 • 1 Reader • 352 pages • 3

#204

The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons

BySam Kean

2014 • 35 Readers • 416 pages • 4

#205

The Shadow King: The Bizarre Afterlife of King Tut's Mummy

ByJo Marchant

2013 • 1 Reader • 320 pages • 3

#206

The Chemistry of Alchemy

ByCathy Cobb,Monty L. Fetterolf,+1 more

2014 • 374 pages

#207

The Third Horseman: Climate Change and the Great Famine of the 14th Century

ByWilliam Rosen

2014 • 7 Readers • 320 pages • 4

#208

West of the Revolution

ByClaudio Saunt

2 Readers

#209

A Dog's History of the World: Canines and the Domestication of Humans

ByLaura Hobgood-Oster

2014 • 1 Reader • 2

#210

Here Is Where: Discovering America's Great Forgotten History

ByAndrew Carroll

2010 • 1 Reader • 514 pages • 4

#211

The Victorian city

ByJudith Flanders

2012 • 8 Readers • 545 pages • 4

#212

Whatever Happened to the Metric System?: How America Kept Its Feet

ByJohn Bemelmans Marciano

2013 • 1 Reader • 310 pages • 3

#213

Inside the Victorian Home

ByJudith Flanders

2003 • 15 Readers • 499 pages • 4

#214

The Sons of Caesar: Imperial Rome's First Dynasty

ByPhilip Matyszak

2006 • 1 Reader • 3

#215

Renaissance People: Lives that Shaped the Modern Age

ByRobert C. Davis,Beth Lindsmith

2011 • 1 Reader

#216

Demon's brood

ByDesmond Seward

1 Reader • 4

#217

The Art of the English Murder: From Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes to Agatha Christie and Alfred Hitchcock

ByLucy Worsley

2013 • 12 Readers • 312 pages • 3.3

#218

How We Got to Now

BySteven Johnson

2014 • 47 Readers • 320 pages • 3.9

#219

Isabella: The Warrior Queen

ByKirstin Downey

2014 • 10 Readers • 520 pages • 4

#220

Joan of Arc: A Life Transfigured

ByKathryn Harrison

2014 • 8 Readers • 382 pages • 3.3

#221

#1 of 2 in How to Be

How to Be a Victorian

ByRuth Goodman

2013 • 37 Readers • 458 pages • 4.3

#222

The Age of the Vikings

ByAnders Winroth

2014 • 5 Readers • 320 pages

#223

The Perfect King: The Life of Edward III, Father of the English Nation

ByIan Mortimer

2 Readers

#224

The Middle Ages

ByJohannes Fried

2008 • 1 Reader • 653 pages • 4

#225

1000 Years of Annoying the French

ByStephen Clarke

2010 • 1 Reader • 4

#226

The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu

ByDan Jurafsky

2014 • 11 Readers • 238 pages • 3

#227

Scatter, Adapt, and Remember

ByAnnalee Newitz

2013 • 2 Readers • 320 pages • 4

#228

Infidel Kings and Unholy Warriors: Faith, Power, and Violence in the Age of Crusade and Jihad

ByBrian Catlos

2014 • 2 Readers

#229

A Crack in the Edge of the World: America & the Great California Earthquake of 1906

BySimon Winchester

2005 • 1 Reader • 4

#230

Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of his Time

ByDava Sobel

1995 • 163 Readers • 208 pages • 4

#231

The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science

ByRichard Holmes

2008 • 3 Readers • 576 pages

#232

City of Scoundrels: The 12 Days of Disaster That Gave Birth to Modern Chicago

ByGary Krist

2012 • 4 Readers

#233

Pagans: The End of Traditional Religion and the Rise of Christianity

ByJames J. O'Donnell

2015 • 8 Readers • 273 pages • 3.3

#234

The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World

ByEdward Dolnick

2011 • 2 Readers • 378 pages • 4

#235

The Men Who United the States: America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible

BySimon Winchester

2013 • 11 Readers • 428 pages • 3.7

#236

Constantine the Emperor

ByDavid Potter

2013 • 1 Reader • 385 pages

#237

#3 of 5 in The History of England

Rebellion: The History of England from James I to the Glorious Revolution

ByPeter Ackroyd

2014 • 9 Readers • 502 pages • 3

#238

Jumbo: This being the true story of the world's greatest elephant

ByPaul Chambers

2008 • 1 Reader • 3

#239

A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present

ByHoward Zinn

4 Readers • 5

#240

Defending the City of God: A Medieval Queen, the First Crusades, and the Quest for Peace in Jerusalem

BySharan Newman

2014 • 1 Reader • 274 pages • 2

#241

1776

ByDavid McCullough

2005 • 208 Readers • 432 pages • 4.1

#242

Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms & a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories

BySimon Winchester

2010 • 5 Readers • 2.8

#243

The Heir Apparent: A Life of Edward VII, the Playboy Prince

ByJane Ridley

2010 • 6 Readers • 768 pages • 5

#244

Salt: A World History

ByMark Kurlansky

2002 • 188 Readers • 496 pages • 3.6

#245

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

ByYuval Noah Harari

2011 • 1,662 Readers • 443 pages • 4.2

#246

The Edge of the World

ByMichael Pye

2014 • 5 Readers • 394 pages

#247

In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette

ByHampton Sides

2014 • 53 Readers • 454 pages • 4.5

#248

Prince Rupert: The Last Cavalier

ByCharles Spencer

2007 • 1 Reader • 430 pages

#249

European History for Dummies

BySean Lang

2006 • 2 Readers • 463 pages • 3.5

#250

Seeing Further: The Story of Science and the Royal Society

ByBill Bryson

2010 • 3 Readers • 819 pages • 2

#251

British history for dummies

BySean Lang

#252

Joan of Arc: A History

ByHelen Castor

2014 • 7 Readers • 328 pages • 4.2

#253

The Story of Western Science

BySusan Wise Bauer

2015 • 3 Readers • 316 pages

#254

Dr. Mutter's Marvels

ByCristin O'Keefe Aptowicz

2014 • 1 Reader • 384 pages • 4

#255

A Concise History of Modern Europe

ByDavid S. Mason

2011 • 1 Reader

#256

Coined

ByKabir Sehgal

#257

The Perfection of the Paper Clip: Curious Tales of Invention, Accidental Genius, and Stationery Obsession

ByJames Ward

2014 • 2 Readers • 304 pages • 3

#258

Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

ByJames W. Loewen

1995 • 41 Readers • 466 pages • 3.5

#259

Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883

BySimon Winchester

2003 • 6 Readers • 3

#260

Dirty old London : the Victorian fight against filth

ByLee Jackson

2014 • 1 Reader • 304 pages

#261

The Johnstown Flood

ByDavid McCullough

1968 • 22 Readers • 302 pages • 4.1

#262

Packing for Mars

ByMary Roach

2010 • 114 Readers • 334 pages • 4

#263

Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England

ByAlison Weir

1 Reader

#264

In the Heart of the Sea: The Epic True Story That Inspired Moby-Dick

ByNathaniel Philbrick

2000 • 168 Readers • 340 pages • 4

#265

The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology

BySimon Winchester(Author and Narrator)

2001 • 6 Readers • 3

#266

Lusitania: Triumph, Tragedy, and the End of the Edwardian Age

ByGreg King,Penny Wilson

2015 • 4 Readers • 400 pages • 3

#267

The Science of Shakespeare: A New Look at the Playwright's Universe

ByDan Falk

2014 • 2 Readers • 383 pages • 3

#268

George Washington's Secret Six The Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution

ByBrian Kilmeade

2013 • 2 Readers • 330 pages • 3

#269

Madness in Civilization: A Cultural History of Insanity

ByAndrew Scull

2015 • 1 Reader • 12 pages • 4

#270

Georgette Heyer's Regency World

ByJennifer Kloester

2005 • 9 Readers • 382 pages • 3.5

#271

Inglorious Royal Marriages: A Demi-Millennium of Unholy Mismatrimony

ByLeslie Carroll

2014 • 3 Readers • 401 pages • 3.5

#272

A is for Arsenic

ByKathryn Harkup

2015 • 15 Readers • 288 pages • 4.3

#273

A Little History of the United States

ByJames West Davidson

2016 • 6 Readers • 344 pages • 4.3

#274

The Making of Home

ByJudith Flanders

2014 • 9 Readers • 368 pages • 4

#275

The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

BySimon Winchester

1998 • 10 Readers • 152 pages • 3

#276

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

ByErik Larson

2015 • 225 Readers • 450 pages • 4

#277

Making a Point

ByDavid Crystal

2015 • 2 Readers • 378 pages • 4

#278

The Rival Queens: Catherine de' Medici, Her Daughter Marguerite de Valois, and the Betrayal that Ignited a Kingdom

ByNancy Goldstone

2015 • 6 Readers • 434 pages • 3

#279

George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I

ByM.J. Carter

2009 • 4 Readers • 4

#280

The Borgias: The Hidden History

ByG.J. Meyer

3 Readers • 1

#281

Secret Lives of the Tsars: Three Centuries of Autocracy, Debauchery, Betrayal, Murder, and Madness from Romanov Russia

ByMichael Farquhar

2014 • 1 Reader

#282

Women in Culture and Society

Women of the Renaissance

ByMargaret L. King

1991 • 1 Reader • 351 pages • 3

#283

Newton's Apple and Other Myths about Science

ByKostas Kampourakis(Editor),Ronald L. Numbers(Editor)

2015 • 2 Readers • 287 pages

#284

The Witches: Salem, 1692

ByStacy Schiff

2015 • 87 Readers • 498 pages • 3.1

#285

The axe and the oath

ByRobert Fossier

1 Reader

#286

Dynasty

ByTom Holland

2015 • 23 Readers • 512 pages • 4

#287

Blood Royal: A True Tale of Crime and Detection in Medieval Paris

ByEric Jager

2014 • 3 Readers • 280 pages • 3

#288

It Ended Badly

ByJennifer Wright

2015 • 9 Readers • 240 pages • 4

#289

A Brief History of Creation: Science and the Search for the Origin of Life

ByBill Mesler,H. James Cleaves II

2015 • 2 Readers • 288 pages • 4.5

#290

The Lost Tudor Princess

ByAlison Weir

2016 • 1 Reader • 542 pages • 3

#291

Of Beards and Men: The Revealing History of Facial Hair

ByChristopher Oldstone-Moore

2015 • 1 Reader • 347 pages

#292

SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

ByMary Beard

1 • 324 Readers • 3.9

#293

The Temptation of Elizabeth Tudor

ByElizabeth Norton

2015 • 4 Readers • 416 pages • 3

#294

Magna Carta: The Birth of Liberty

ByDan Jones

2015 • 2 Readers • 288 pages • 3

#295

The Medici

ByPaul Strathern

2003 • 1 Reader

#296

The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors

ByDan Jones

2014 • 63 Readers • 392 pages • 4.1

#297

You Could Look It Up: The Reference Shelf from Ancient Babylon to Wikipedia

ByJack Lynch

2015 • 3 Readers • 453 pages

#298

Dead Presidents: An American Adventure into the Strange Deaths and Surprising Afterlives of Our Nation's Leaders

ByBrady Carlson

2016 • 4 Readers • 324 pages • 3

#299

Henry IV: The Righteous King

ByIan Mortimer

2007 • 1 Reader • 5

#300

Ambition and Desire: The Dangerous Life of Josephine Bonaparte

ByKate Williams

2013 • 2 Readers

#301

Hair: A Human History

ByKurt Stenn

2016 • 1 Reader • 256 pages

#302

Richard III: A Ruler and his Reputation

ByDavid Horspool

2015 • 2 Readers • 436 pages • 3

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