Adam Higgenbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space: ( minute by minute )
Alison Arngrim, Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated: ( abuse and survival )
Jonathan Haslam, The Spectre of War: International Communism and the Origins of World War II: ( propping up fascism to fight Reds )
Into the Desert: Reflections on the Gulf War, ed. Jeffrey A. Engel: ( was it a good war? )
Andrew M. Wehrman, The Contagion of Liberty: The Politics of Smallpox in the American Revolution: ( recommended: inoculation is different from vaccination )
David Bellos & Alexandre Montagu, Who Owns This Sentence?: A History of Copyrights and Wrongs: ( a skeptical history )
Monica Hesse, American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land: ( true crime )
Mark A. Noll, The Civil War as a Theological Crisis: ( Christianity and the Civil War )
Henry Reynolds, Why Weren't We Told?: ( Australian history )
Tony Judt, Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten 20th Century: ( Essay collection )
Vaclav Smil, Invention and Innovation: A Brief History of Hype and Failure: ( against survivor bias )
Sarah Chayes, The Punishment of Virtue: ( US mistakes in Afghanistan )
Karen E. Fields & Barbara J. Fields, Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life: ( actively creating racism )
Marjoleine Kars, Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast: ( history of a rebellion )
Bruce H. Franklin, Most Important Fish in the Sea: ( have some more depressing reads! )
Susan Stranahan et al., Fukushima: The Story of a Nuclear Disaster: ( nope, not getting better )
Lauren Benton, They Called It Peace: ( who defines war? )
Benjamin C. Waterhouse, One Day I'll Work for Myself: The Dream and Delusion That Conquered America: ( a self-employed man has a fool for an employer )
Alison Arngrim, Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated: ( abuse and survival )
Jonathan Haslam, The Spectre of War: International Communism and the Origins of World War II: ( propping up fascism to fight Reds )
Into the Desert: Reflections on the Gulf War, ed. Jeffrey A. Engel: ( was it a good war? )
Andrew M. Wehrman, The Contagion of Liberty: The Politics of Smallpox in the American Revolution: ( recommended: inoculation is different from vaccination )
David Bellos & Alexandre Montagu, Who Owns This Sentence?: A History of Copyrights and Wrongs: ( a skeptical history )
Monica Hesse, American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land: ( true crime )
Mark A. Noll, The Civil War as a Theological Crisis: ( Christianity and the Civil War )
Henry Reynolds, Why Weren't We Told?: ( Australian history )
Tony Judt, Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten 20th Century: ( Essay collection )
Vaclav Smil, Invention and Innovation: A Brief History of Hype and Failure: ( against survivor bias )
Sarah Chayes, The Punishment of Virtue: ( US mistakes in Afghanistan )
Karen E. Fields & Barbara J. Fields, Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life: ( actively creating racism )
Marjoleine Kars, Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast: ( history of a rebellion )
Bruce H. Franklin, Most Important Fish in the Sea: ( have some more depressing reads! )
Susan Stranahan et al., Fukushima: The Story of a Nuclear Disaster: ( nope, not getting better )
Lauren Benton, They Called It Peace: ( who defines war? )
Benjamin C. Waterhouse, One Day I'll Work for Myself: The Dream and Delusion That Conquered America: ( a self-employed man has a fool for an employer )