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The only lesson humanity learns from history is that we rarely learn from it. Explore fast summaries on empires, conflicts, and turning points. Learn smarter. Decide smarter.
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A Very Stable Genius
Women and Power
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
The Divine Comedy
The Better Angels of Our Nature
The Invisible Coup
The Greatest Sentence Ever Written
Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America
We the Women
Where Do We Go from Here
Радянський модернізм. Бруталізм. Постмодернізм . Будівлі та споруди 1955-1991 років в Україні
A Word About the Writers’ Home “Slovo”
The Color of Compromise
And the Band Played On
Soviet Modernism. Brutalism. Post-modernism. Buildings and Structures in Ukraine 1955-1991
Clanlands
Team of Rivals
If
Young Queens
Up With the Sun
Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity
The Wind Knows My Name
The West: A New History
The Shadow of Perseus
The Mitford Affair
The Midnight News
The Last Lifeboat
The Last Chance Cowboy
The House of Eve
The House Is on Fire
The Diary Keepers
The Devil’s Playground
The Davenports
The Brightest Star
Swan Light
Strangers in the Night
Only the Beautiful
Pirate Enlightenment
Lady Tan’s Circle of Women
Independence
Empty Theatre; or, The Lives of King Ludwig II of Bavaria & Empress Sisi
Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea
Culture: The Story of Us, From Cave Art to K‑Pop
Cuddy
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
Clytemnestra
Biography of X
The Glass Castle: A Memoir
Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed
Plentiful Energy: The Story of the Integral Fast Reactor
The Trial of Socrates
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
The Old Way: A Story of the First People
Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age
The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
Pandæmonium 1660–1886: The Coming of the Machine as Seen by Contemporary Observers
Red Famine
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
The Frozen River
Africatown: America’s Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created
The Book of Enoch
Guns, Germs and Steel
Democracy in America
Broad Band
The Book Thief
Cosmosapiens
Founding Brothers
New Cold Wars
A History of Fake Things on the Internet
The Cherry Orchard
The 1619 Project
Isaac's Storm
A History of Iran
Germany
Of Mice and Men
The Plantagenets
The Triumph of Seeds
The Horse
The Wager
Stoned
Tsunami
The Lincoln Conspiracy
Lessons in Chemistry
Upheaval
The Art of Love
Mayflower
The Light of Days
When the Clock Broke
Crowds and Power
The Anglo-Saxons
Nexus
The Great Partition
The Scarlet Letter
Killing the Rising Sun
Antigone
The War of the Worlds
The Nazi Conspiracy
Escape from Freedom
Sex and the Citadel
Grand Transitions
This Blessed Plot
At Home
The Soul of America
Code Girls
The Immortality Key
The Trial
Myth America
Letter to the American Church
Palestine
Strange Glow
Killing the Mob
Humanly Possible
India After Gandhi
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
The Message
Sapiens
A Peace to End All Peace
Shakespeare in a Divided America
Why Taiwan Matters
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee
Pegasus
This Is Your Brain on Sports
On Paper
Impeachment
Time of the Magicians
The Fate of the Day
The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth
The Fire Next Time
The Black Church
Macbeth
Candide
Bloodlands
Zero Fail
The True Believer
Shoot for the Moon
Patient H.M.
What’s Our Problem?
A Walk in the Woods
Happy Accidents
Glass House
Tribe
Madness in Civilization
Ordinary Men
Maoism
The Sleepwalkers
A Brief History of Motion
How Innovation Works
Dominion
Things Fall Apart
Forget the Alamo
The Origins of Totalitarianism
The Dawn of Everything
The Doomsday Machine
The Age of Reason
The Souls of Black Folk
The Last of the Mohicans
Thunderstruck
The Congo from Leopold to Kabila
Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-De-Ay
Wagnerism
The Evolution of Everything
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Dreamland
Ping-Pong Diplomacy
Atomic Accidents
Presidents of War
In Cold Blood
A History of Nigeria
Falling Upwards
Putin's People
War and Peace
The Road
Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here
Quantum Supremacy
Orientalism
The Anarchy
The Rest Is Noise
Raising Men
War
Common Sense
Who Rules the World?
Foundation
Shadows at Noon
The Song of Achilles
Agent Sonya
The Art of Rivalry
Strangers and Intimates
On War
The WEIRDest People in the World
Devil in the Grove
ISIS
Women, Race & Class
The Next Great Migration
Drunk
The Fourth Turning
The Gatekeepers
The Harvard Psychedelic Club
King Leopold's Ghost
Saving Aziz
The Idea Factory
Under the Banner of Heaven
The Iliad
Faith Still Moves Mountains
When Women Ruled the World
Hue 1968
The Cold War
The Muqaddimah
On Palestine
Why Don't We Learn from History?
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
The 33 Strategies of War
Empire
When Einstein Walked with Gödel
The Better Brain
In Pursuit of the Unknown
Destiny Disrupted
The Seventh Million
Hiroshima
The Habsburgs
A History of God
The Great Influenza
Black Flags
Written in History
Anxious
Gods of the Upper Air
Civilizations
China In Ten Words
Fantasyland
Zero
The First Conspiracy
Go Like Hell
Black and British
Beyond Culture
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
1491
Secondhand Time
The Four Agreements
The Consolation of Philosophy
Don Quixote
Killing the Killers
Genesis
The Forgotten 500
River of the Gods
Back Channel to Cuba
Myanmar's Enemy Within
The Science of Happily Ever After
Ulysses
The Peloponnesian War
Sea Power
The End of the Myth
Arabs
A Passage to India
The Nightingale
White Trash
Free Speech
The Alignment Problem
Open
Doubt: A History
The Alchemy of Us
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine
The Pope at War
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Romanovs
The Looming Tower
The Future Is History
How Fascism Works
The Kite Runner
Powers and Thrones
Future Stories
The Art Thief
The Great Leveler
She Has Her Mother’s Laugh
Ancient Egypt
Hagakure
Valley of Genius
Heart of Darkness
Jerusalem
The Golden Thread
A Very English Scandal
Chernobyl
The American War in Afghanistan
Israel
Vanguard
Picasso's War
The French Revolution
Genome
Abortion and the Law in America
A People Betrayed
The Twelve Caesars
The Splendid and the Vile
The Making of Modern South Africa
Transcendence
The Genius Myth
Revolutionary Iran
The Code
Autocracy, Inc.
First Principles
History of the Peloponnesian War
The Wretched of the Earth
Saving Time
Just Mercy
Killing Lincoln
Four Hundred Souls
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived
A Million Years In A Day
American Carnage
Iran's Grand Strategy
To Kill a Mockingbird
Islam
The Gates of Europe
Work
A Spy Among Friends
The Monopolists
The Story of Sushi
A History of the World in 6 Glasses
Indigenous Cultures in an Interconnected World
Cannibalism
How the Word Is Passed
Killing the Witches
Politics
The Silk Roads
The Chemistry Book
Dancing in the Streets
A People’s History of the United States
Shrinks
Fifth Sun
Clean
Unwell Women
The Catcher in the Rye
Human History on Drugs
In a Different Key
100 Million Years Of Food
Eve
Heart
Salt
Who Built That
The Upstarts
Gutenberg the Geek
Metropolis
Understanding Power
Children of Ash and Elm
Mythos
Bloody Brilliant Women
The Song of Roland
The Faerie Queene
Power and Progress
Americana
Capital
The Rift
Too Big to Fail
Slouching Towards Utopia
The Arthashastra
Money
How Economics Explains the World
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
Kaput
Capital Ideas
The End of the World Is Just the Beginning
Growth
Clashing over Commerce
Principles For Dealing With the Changing World Order
A Splendid Exchange
The Dying Citizen
Invention and Innovation
How the World Really Works
The Shortest History of Economics
Hawai'i
Drinking Water
Evil Geniuses
Capital and Ideology
The Myth of American Inequality
One Summer
Destined for War
The Economists’ Hour
The New Silk Roads
Bourbon Empire
The Square and the Tower
Material World
From Silk to Silicon
This Time Is Different
How To Be Like Walt
Wonderland
Hamlet
The Great Gatsby
Holy Sh*t
Areopagitica
The Mother Tongue
The Code Book
Like
Behind the Cloud
Our Dollar, Your Problem
Essays In Persuasion
The Go-Getter
Ours Was the Shining Future
And There Was Light
The Revolutionary
Endgame
Becoming FDR
Endurance
The Diary of a Young Girl
The Lives of the Artists
The River of Doubt
The Maniac
The Storyteller
The Wide Wide Sea
The Demon of Unrest
The House of Morgan
Mark Twain
Teddy and Booker T.
You Never Forget Your First
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Lincoln vs. Davis
King
Stonewall
Madame Bovary
Napoleon the Great
Bedtime Biography: Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
G-Man
The House of Rothschild
Freedom
The Situation Room
I Know why the Caged Bird Sings
Fall and Rise
Sula
Empire of Pain
Robinson Crusoe
All About Me!
The Motorcycle Diaries
Born a Crime
Richard III
Elizabeth the Queen
The Zone of Interest
Bedtime Biography: An Autobiography
Confronting the Presidents
Poor Things
Bedtime Biography: Long Walk to Freedom
The Prince and the Pauper
American Prometheus
A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare
Reagan
Native Son
Blood Meridian
The Happiest Man on Earth
If You Tell
Alexander the Great
The Greatest Capitalist Who Ever Lived
His Truth Is Marching On
A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea
An Ordinary Man
The Reader
Astor
Midnight's Children
Bedtime Biography: Vindication
The Volunteer
The Warmth of Other Suns
Thirteen Days
Florence Nightingale
The Remains of the Day
The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
Alexander Hamilton
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Nine Lives
All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days
Some People Need Killing
A Woman of No Importance
Napoleon’s Buttons
Origin Story
Nine Lives
Lives of the Stoics
Electra
The Trojan Women
The Fate of Rome
The Happiness Fantasy
Adrift
This Is Your Mind on Plants
The Mosquito Bowl
All the Sinners Bleed
The Spy and the Traitor
Fear
The Rights of Man
Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels
Prequel
A Short History of Nearly Everything
The Metaphysics
Democracy Awakening
The Federalist Papers
The Things We Make
Words Like Loaded Pistols
12 Years a Slave
Citizen
Bedtime Biography: Stasiland
Oath and Honor
Songs of America
Questions I Am Asked About The Holocaust
Brown Girl Dreaming
VISA
Get Well Soon
What Is the Bible?
Why The West Rules – For Now
Stamped from the Beginning
The Third Chimpanzee
Age of Anger
The Geography of Bliss
Strangers in Their Own Land
The Trial of Henry Kissinger
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