History By The Years

Explore the best history books by year, from ancient civilizations to modern events. Discover comprehensive timelines, expert analyses, and must-read historical works.

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The Year 1000

by Robert Lacey

As the Shadow of the Millennium Descended Across England and Christendom, it Seemed as if the World was About to End. Actually, it was Only …
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1066

by David Howarth

The year 1066 is one of the most important dates in the history of the Western world: the year William the Conqueror defeated the English …
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A Distant Mirror

by Barbara W. Tuchman

A “marvelous history”* of medieval Europe, from the bubonic plague and the Papal Schism to the Hundred Years’ War, by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of …
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1491 (Second Edition)

by Charles C. Mann

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A groundbreaking work of science, history, and archaeology that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of Columbus in …
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The Class of 1846

by John C. Waugh

No single group of men at West Point--or possibly any academy--has been so indelibly written into history as the class of 1846. The names are …
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Paris 1919

by Margaret MacMillan

National Bestseller New York Times Editors’ Choice Winner of the PEN Hessell Tiltman Prize Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize Silver Medalist for the Arthur …
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August 1914

by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenit︠s︡yn

Expanded by Solzhenitsyn to almost twice the length of the original edition, this novel reconstructs the assassination of tsarist Prime Minister Pyotr Stolupin and the …
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Thunder At Twilight

by Frederic Morton

From the author of A Nervous Splendor, a dazzling portrait of the epicenter of the apocalypse that was World War I
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