• Understanding women in 19th century England
• Jane Austen
• The subterranean of cities
• What makes a city great, especially Paris
• Chaos and disorder
• Rome in the third century
• Historical fantasy with twists on Arthurian legend
• Dante and his religious world
• Nonfiction about lots of things at once
• American intellectual history
• The reigns of James VI of Scotland and I of England
• That tell us why we read and write
• Understanding the Vikings
• To enjoy Shakespeare in the twenty-first century
• To understand the history of Shakespeare's theatre
• The gods and world of Norse mythology
• Latin American culture and politics in the 1960s-70s
• History’s villains and their surprising reputations