History 1,067 books by Carla

And Tyler Too: A Biography Of John And Julia Gardiner Tyler

ByRobert Seager II

1 Reader

#5 of 24 in The American Presidents

James Monroe

ByGary Hart

2005 • 3 Readers • 204 pages • 2

The Passions of Andrew Jackson

ByAndrew Burstein

1 Reader

Edgar Allan Poe's Richmond: The Raven in the River City

ByChristopher P. Semtner

1 Reader

Mad Madame Lalaurie: New Orleans' Most Famous Murderess Revealed

ByLorelei Shannon, Victoria Cosner Love

2 Readers • 4

Crimes of the Century

ByKatherine Ramsland

1 Reader • 3

Murder by Candlelight: The Gruesome Slayings Behind Our Romance with the Macabre

ByMichael Knox Beran

1 Reader

The Invisible Woman

ByClaire Tomalin

2012 • 5 Readers • 368 pages • 4

The Whiskey Rebels

ByDavid Liss

2008 • 16 Readers • 562 pages • 3.3

Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places

ByColin Dickey

2016 • 82 Readers • 338 pages • 4

The Queen of Whale Cay: The Eccentric Story of 'Joe' Carstairs, Fastest Woman on Water

ByKate Summerscale

1997 • 3 Readers

The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer

ByKate Summerscale

2016 • 6 Readers • 402 pages • 3.3

Beethoven's Hair: An Extraordinary Historical Odyssey and a Scientific Mystery Solved

ByRussell Martin

2000 • 3 Readers • 276 pages

The Demon's Brood: A History of the Plantagenet Dynasty

ByDesmond Seward

1 Reader

Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England

ByJohn Putnam Demos

2 Readers • 5

Mountain of the Dead: The Dyatlov Pass Incident

ByKeith McCloskey

2013 • 3 Readers • 224 pages • 5

Signing Their Rights Away

ByJoseph D'Agnese, Denise Kiernan

1 Reader

Jesus Before the Gospels: How the Earliest Christians Remembered, Changed, and Invented Their Stories of the Savior

ByBart D. Ehrman

2016 • 11 Readers • 4

Richard III and the Murder in the Tower

ByPeter A. Hancock

2009 • 2 Readers • 4

Manson in His Own Words

ByCharles Manson

2007 • 1 Reader • 313 pages • 4

The Essential Barack Obama: The Grammy Award-Winning Recordings

ByBarack Obama

1 Reader

The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

ByBarack Obama

2006 • 153 Readers • 386 pages • 4

#2 of 2 in How to Be

How To Be a Tudor: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life

ByRuth Goodman

2015 • 4 Readers • 336 pages

Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

ByBarack Obama

1995 • 216 Readers • 461 pages • 4

The Inaugural Address, 2009: Together with Abraham Lincoln's First and Second Inaugural Addresses and The Gettysburg Address and Ralph Waldo Emerson's Self-Reliance

ByBarack Obama

1 Reader

The Life and Times of Jesus: From His Earthly Beginnings to the Sermon on the Mount

ByWyatt North, Michael J. Ruszala

1 Reader • 3

Ripper: The Secret Life of Walter Sickert

ByPatricia Cornwell

1 Reader • 5

Demonology and Devil-lore

ByMoncure Daniel Conway

1990 • 2 Readers

Daughter Of Earth And Water: A Biography Of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

ByNoel B. Gerson

1 Reader

The Most Powerful Women in the Middle Ages: Queens, Saints, and Viking Slayers, From Empress Theodora to Elizabeth of Tudor

ByMichael Rank, Melissa Rank

1 Reader

How God Became King: The Forgotten Story of the Gospels

ByN.T. Wright

2012 • 13 Readers • 4.3

Oscar Wilde: A Life in Letters

ByOscar Wilde

1 Reader

The Souls of Black Folk

ByW.E.B. Du Bois

1903 • 135 Readers • 272 pages • 4.2

A Beautiful Mind

BySylvia Nasar

1998 • 123 Readers • 461 pages • 3.7

Voodoo, Slaves and White Man's Graves: West Africa and the End of Days

ByTom Coote

1 Reader

Katherine

ByAnya Seton

1954 • 42 Readers • 500 pages • 3.9

Vera: Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov

ByStacy Schiff

2 Readers

Spies, Sadists and Sorcerers

ByDominic Selwood

2015 • 2 Readers • 300 pages • 4

Marriage and the Family in the Middle Ages

ByFrances Gies,Joseph Gies

1987 • 4 Readers • 372 pages

#1 of 2 in Nero

The Confessions of Young Nero

ByMargaret George

2017 • 10 Readers • 528 pages • 4

Medieval Folklore : A Guide to Myths, Legends, Tales, Beliefs, and Customs

ByCarl Lindahl(Editor),John McNamara(Editor)

2000 • 2 Readers • 512 pages

Curious Myths of the Middle Ages

BySabine Baring-Gould

4 Readers

Folk Tales of Britain: Legends

ByHannah Firmin, Katharine M. Briggs, Kevin Crossley-Holland, Clare Melinsky, Peter Firmin

1 Reader

Rough Medicine: Surgeons at Sea in the Age of Sail

ByJoan Druett

1 Reader

The Determined Heart

ByAntoinette May

2015 • 4 Readers • 407 pages • 3.5

Charity and Sylvia

ByRachel Hope Cleves

2014 • 8 Readers • 336 pages • 5

Eiffel's Tower and the World's Fair: Where Buffalo Bill Beguiled Paris, the Artists Quarreled, and Thomas Edison Became a Count

ByJill Jonnes

2 Readers

History Decoded: The 10 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time

ByBrad Meltzer,Keith Ferrell

2013 • 10 Readers • 152 pages • 3.4

Tales of Troy and Greece

ByAndrew Lang

1 Reader

The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party

ByDaniel James Brown

2009 • 5 Readers • 384 pages • 5

A Father's Story

ByLionel Dahmer

1994 • 11 Readers • 255 pages • 5

The Victorian Internet

ByTom Standage

1998 • 50 Readers • 3.8

Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy

ByKaren Abbott

2014 • 52 Readers • 544 pages • 3.8

Wicked Bugs

ByAmy Stewart,Coleen Marlo

2011 • 13 Readers • 288 pages • 4.1

The Great Transformation

ByKaren Armstrong

2006 • 7 Readers • 592 pages • 4

Religious Literacy

ByStephen Prothero

2008 • 8 Readers • 384 pages • 3.7

Twenty years at Hull-House

ByJane Addams

6 Readers

The Big Scrum: How Teddy Roosevelt Saved Football

ByJohn J. Miller

1 Reader

The First Assassin

ByJohn J. Miller

4 Readers

SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

ByMary Beard

1 • 422 Readers • 4

The Polygamist King: A True Story of Murder, Lust, and Exotic Faith in America

ByJohn J. Miller

1 Reader

Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull

ByBarbara Goldsmith

1998 • 3 Readers

Talking to the Dead: Kate and Maggie Fox and the Rise of Spiritualism

ByBarbara Weisberg

2004 • 2 Readers

#1 of 4 in Yokai

The Night Parade of One Hundred Demons: A Field Guide to Japanese Yokai

ByMatthew Meyer(Illustrator)

2012 • 6 Readers • 226 pages • 3.8

House of Evil

ByJohn Dean

2008 • 6 Readers • 231 pages • 3.5

Man-Eater

ByHarold Schechter

2015 • 3 Readers • 4.5

Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: A Journey Into the Evangelical Subculture in America

ByRandall Balmer

2 Readers

When Jesus Became God

ByRichard E. Rubenstein

1999 • 6 Readers • 288 pages

An Insider's View of Mormon Origins

ByGrant H. Palmer

1 Reader

The Murder of Helen Jewett

ByPatricia Cline Cohen

1998 • 7 Readers • 512 pages

Charlatan

ByPope Brock

2008 • 11 Readers • 324 pages • 3

The True History of the Elephant Man: The Definitive Account of the Tragic and Extraordinary Life of Joseph Carey Merrick

ByPeter Ford, Michael Howell

1 Reader • 5

Strange and Obscure Stories of the Civil War

ByTim Rowland, J.W. Howard

1 Reader

Words from the White House: Words and Phrases Coined or Popularized by America's Presidents

ByPaul Dickson

1 Reader

Roanoke: Solving the Mystery of the Lost Colony

ByLee Miller

1 Reader

The Witches: Salem, 1692

ByStacy Schiff

2015 • 108 Readers • 498 pages • 3.1

Dead Mountain

ByDonnie Eichar

2013 • 90 Readers • 288 pages • 3.8

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

BySimon Winchester

2013 • 12 Readers • 428 pages • 3.8

Manson's Right-Hand Man Speaks Out

ByCharles "Tex" Watson

1 Reader • 5

Peaceful Neighbor

ByMichael G. Long

2015 • 1 Reader • 222 pages • 5

The Trial of Elizabeth Cree

ByPeter Ackroyd

1994 • 5 Readers • 246 pages • 3.7

The Cave of John the Baptist: The Stunning Archaeological Discovery that has Redefined Christian History

ByShimon Gibson

1 Reader

Savage Girls and Wild Boys

ByMichael Newton

2004 • 2 Readers • 316 pages

Calendar

ByDavid Ewing Duncan

1998 • 2 Readers • 352 pages • 4

Six Women of Salem: The Untold Story of the Accused and Their Accusers in the Salem Witch Trials

ByMarilynne K. Roach

2013 • 25 Readers • 445 pages • 3.5

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

ByErik Larson

2015 • 305 Readers • 450 pages • 3.9

Hysteria: The Disturbing History

ByAndrew Scull

2 Readers

Undertaker of the Mind: John Monro and Mad-Doctoring in Eighteenth-Century England

ByJonathan Andrews, Andrew Scull

1 Reader

Perpetua's Passion: The Death and Memory of a Young Roman Woman

ByJoyce E. Salisbury

2 Readers

The History of Hell

ByAlice K. Turner

1993 • 3 Readers • 320 pages • 3.5

#1 of 5 in Anno Dracula

Anno Dracula

ByKim Newman

1992 • 96 Readers • 561 pages • 3.9

The Devil's Rooming House

ByM. William Phelps

2010 • 5 Readers • 251 pages • 5

True Ghost Stories and Eerie Legends from America's Most Haunted Neighborhood

ByDavid Domine

1 Reader

The Monster Show

ByDavid J. Skal

2001 • 12 Readers • 448 pages • 5

The Deadly Sisterhood

ByLeonie Frieda

2012 • 4 Readers • 403 pages

American Phoenix: John Quincy and Louisa Adams, the War of 1812, and the Exile that Saved American Independence

ByJane Hampton Cook

2013 • 3 Readers

Them

ByJon Ronson

2001 • 71 Readers • 337 pages • 3.8

Shooting Victoria: Madness, Mayhem, and the Rebirth of the British Monarchy

ByPaul Thomas Murphy

2012 • 8 Readers • 669 pages

Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields

ByWendy Lower

2013 • 13 Readers • 288 pages • 3.3

Answer Them Nothing: Bringing Down the Polygamous Empire of Warren Jeffs

ByDebra Weyermann

1 Reader • 3

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