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  • Graham Addison The best books to help understand Jerusalem Book cover of Jerusalem: The Biography Book cover of The Storyteller of Jerusalem: The Life and Times of Wasif Jawhariyyeh, 1904-1948 Book cover of A Tale of Love and Darkness Book cover of Under Jerusalem: The Buried History of the World's Most Contested City Book cover of Nine Quarters of Jerusalem: A New Biography of the Old City
  • Helen Fry The best books on deception in WW2 Book cover of Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory Book cover of The Double-Cross System: The Classic Account of World War Two Spy-Masters Book cover of The Secret War: Spies, Ciphers, and Guerrillas, 1939-1945 Book cover of Diversion and Deception: Dudley Clarke's a Force and Allied Operations in World War II Book cover of Stalin's Englishman: Guy Burgess, the Cold War, and the Cambridge Spy Ring
  • Bret Hinsch The best books about Chinese history that will surprise you Book cover of The Genius of China: 3,000 Years of Science, Discovery, and Invention Book cover of Emperor of China: Self-Portrait of K'ang-Hsi Book cover of The Last Embassy: The Dutch Mission of 1795 and the Forgotten History of Western Encounters with China Book cover of Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962 Book cover of Women and the Family in Rural Taiwan
  • Cecilia Morgan The best books in social and women’s history Book cover of The Making of the English Working Class Book cover of Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century Book cover of City of Women Book cover of Many Tender Ties: Women in Fur-Trade Society, 1670-1870 Book cover of Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family, from Slavery to the Present
  • Celeste McNamara The best books on Renaissance Italy Book cover of The Renaissance in Italy: A Social and Cultural History of the Rinascimento Book cover of Mad Blood Stirring: Vendetta and Factions in Friuli During the Renaissance Book cover of Possessing Nature: Museums, Collecting, and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy Book cover of Secrets of Women: Gender, Generation, and the Origins of Human Dissection Book cover of Forbidden Friendships: Homosexuality and Male Culture in Renaissance Florence
  • Jim Piecuch The best books on the American Revolution that don’t tell the same old story Book cover of Revolutionary Roads Book cover of With Zeal and with Bayonets Only: The British Army on Campaign in North America, 1775-1783 Book cover of The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Book cover of Black Patriots and Loyalists Book cover of Scars Of Independence
  • Eugene L. Meyer The best books about slavery and the Civil War era you should not miss Book cover of The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War Book cover of A Madman's Will: John Randolph, Four Hundred Slaves, and the Mirage of Freedom Book cover of Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South Book cover of Nat Turner, Black Prophet: A Visionary History Book cover of The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920
  • Lance Weller The best books on American Civil War history that reads like literature Book cover of Fort Sumter to Perryville Book cover of Gettysburg: The Last Invasion Book cover of Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln Book cover of Grant Takes Command Book cover of Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam
  • Wendy Hamand Venet The best books on 19th century Atlanta Georgia Book cover of Atlanta, 1847-1890: City Building in the Old South and the New Book cover of Decision in the West: The Atlanta Campaign of 1864 Book cover of Secret Yankees: The Union Circle in Confederate Atlanta Book cover of Atlanta, Cradle of the New South: Race and Remembering in the Civil War's Aftermath Book cover of Race and the Atlanta Cotton States Exposition of 1895
  • Sarah C. Melville The best books to introduce the ancient Near East Book cover of A History of the Ancient Near East, ca. 3000-323 BC Book cover of Before the Muses: An Anthology of Akkadian Literature Book cover of Brotherhood of Kings: How International Relations Shaped the Ancient Near East Book cover of I am Ashurbanipal: King of the World, King of Assyria Book cover of The Cultural Atlas of Mesopotamia and the Ancient Near East
  • Marilynne K. Roach The best books to understand why the Salem Witch Trials occurred Book cover of Records of the Salem Witch-Hunt Book cover of Narratives Of The Witchcraft Cases, 1648-1706 Book cover of Witchcraft at Salem Book cover of Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England Book cover of In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692
  • William Heath The best books on the Great Lakes/Ohio Valley Frontier Book cover of The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815 Book cover of Tecumseh: A Life Book cover of The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation Book cover of Jefferson and the Indians: The Tragic Fate of the First Americans Book cover of Frontier Indiana
  • Karen Graubart The most surprising histories of gender in colonial Latin America Book cover of Malintzin's Choices: An Indian Woman in the Conquest of Mexico Book cover of Colonial Habits: Convents and the Spiritual Economy of Cuzco, Peru Book cover of Exquisite Slaves: Race, Clothing, and Status in Colonial Lima Book cover of Passing to America: Antonio (Nee Maria) Yta's Transgressive, Transatlantic Life in the Twilight of the Spanish Empire Public Lives, Private Secrets
  • Michael J. Hightower The best books that reveal history’s obscure, surprising, and enlightening backstories Book cover of Infamous Scribblers: The Founding Fathers and the Rowdy Beginnings of American Journalism Book cover of The Quiet Before: On the Unexpected Origins of Radical Ideas Book cover of Time's Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance Book cover of American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis Book cover of Wrecked Lives and Lost Souls: Joe Lynch Davis and the Last of the Oklahoma Outlaws
  • Melvyn Fickling The best books about the Battle of Britain (from someone with a lifelong fascination for it) Book cover of Tally-Ho! A Yankee in a Spitfire Book cover of Eagle Day: The Battle of Britain Book cover of The Battle of Britain: Five Months That Changed History; May-October 1940 Book cover of Spitfire Book cover of Piece of Cake
  • Francesca Fiorani The best books to understand the art and culture of Renaissance Florence Book cover of Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style Book cover of The Swerve: How the World Became Modern Book cover of The Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance Book cover of Cosimo De' Medici and the Florentine Renaissance: The Patron's Oeuvre Book cover of The Companion Guide to Florence
  • Kimberly A. Hamlin The best books about women fighting for bodily and political autonomy Book cover of At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance—A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power Book cover of Redefining Rape: Sexual Violence in the Era of Suffrage and Segregation Book cover of Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray Book cover of The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service Book cover of Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger
  • Helena P. Schrader The best books on the Crusades and Crusader States Book cover of The Concise History of the Crusades Book cover of Hattin: Great Battles Series Book cover of The World of the Crusades Book cover of Frankish Rural Settlement in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem Book cover of Muslims and Crusaders: Christianity's Wars in the Middle East, 1095-1382, from the Islamic Sources
  • Martha Marks The best books on the Roman Empire in the 2nd half of the 1st century AD Book cover of 69 A.D.: The Year of Four Emperors Book cover of Flavius ​​Josephus: Eyewitness to Rome's First-Century Conquest of Judea Book cover of Apocalypse: The Great Jewish Revolt Against Rome AD 66-73 Book cover of Slaves and Masters in the Roman Empire: A Study in Social Control Book cover of A Monument to Dynasty and Death: The Story of Rome's Colosseum and the Emperors Who Built It
  • Steven Faulkner The best travel books that enrich landscape with history while guided by an intelligent and personable writer Book cover of Goodbye to a River: A Narrative Book cover of West with the Night: A Memoir Book cover of The Path to Rome Book cover of Among the Russians Book cover of In Patagonia
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