The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century
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103 recognized books, each paired with conversations featuring the author.
Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All
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Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine
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Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe
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Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World, 1914 – 1948
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These Truths: A History of the United States
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Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary
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The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World
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The Trial of Adolf Hitler: The Beer Hall Putsch and the Rise of Nazi Germany
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The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains
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Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century
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A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution
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The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits
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Orphans of Empire: The Fate of London’s Foundlings
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All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
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Betsy Ross and the Making of America
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Uncrowned Queen: The Life of Margaret Beaufort, Mother of the Tudors
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The Hundred Year War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917 – 2017
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Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern
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Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich 1944 – 1955
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Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World
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Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America’s Journey from Slavery to Segregation
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The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile Under the Tsars
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Unruly Waters: How Rains, Rivers, Coasts, and Seas Have Shaped Asia’s History
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Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
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Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
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The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America
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The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War
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The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World
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Valkyrie: The Women of the Viking World
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The Fallen: The Magdalene Laundries and Ireland's Legacy of Silence
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The Painter's Fire: A Forgotten History of the Artists Who Championed the American Revolution
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Korean Messiah: Kim Il Sung and the Christian Roots of North Korea's Personality Cult
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Stealing America: The Hidden Story of Indigenous Slavery in U.S. History
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The African Kingdom of Gold: Britain and the Asante Treasure
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The First Ghetto: Venice and the Origins of Modern Antisemitism
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Lying Abroad: Henry Wotton and the Invention of Diplomacy
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John Doe Chinaman: A Forgotten History of Chinese Life Under American Racial Law
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We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution
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The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide
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Vanilla: The History of an Extraordinary Bean
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Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia
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The Party's Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping
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Against the World: Anti-Globalism and Mass Politics Between the World Wars
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Arid Empire: The Entangled Fates of Arizona and Arabia
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Courting India: Seventeenth-Century England, Mughal India, and the Origins of Empire
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Dust on the Throne: The Search for Buddhism in Modern India
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Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It
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Queens of a Fallen World: The Lost Women of Augustine’s Confessions
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Red Memory: The Afterlives of China’s Cultural Revolution
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The Declassification Engine: What History Reveals About America’s Top Secrets
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The Madman in the White House: Sigmund Freud, Ambassador Bullitt, and the Lost Psychobiography of Woodrow Wilson
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American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis
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Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands
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Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate
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The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family
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The Perfection of Nature: Animals, Breeding, and Race in the Renaissance
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The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators between Qing China and the British Empire
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Dear Palestine: A Social History of the 1948 War
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Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation
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In the Forest of No Joy: The Congo-Océan Railroad and the Tragedy of French Colonialism
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The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes, Chinese Migration, and Global Politics: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics
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The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe
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The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World
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Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory
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Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire
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White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea
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Black Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter
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Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast
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India in the Persianate Age: 1000 – 1765
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Providence Lost: The Rise and Fall of Cromwell’s Protectorate
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Survivors: Children’s Lives After the Holocaust
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The Loss of Hindustan: The Invention of India
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The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution
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Underground Asia: Global Revolutionaries and the Assault on Empire
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American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic
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Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait
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Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power
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Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts: Twelve Journeys into the Medieval World
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Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War
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The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
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The Burr Conspiracy: Uncovering the Story of an Early American Crisis
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The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages
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The Life and Legend of the Sultan Saladin
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The Scholems: A Story of the German – Jewish Bourgeoisie from Emancipation to Destruction
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I Am Dynamite! A Life of Nietzsche
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Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice
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The Islamic Enlightenment: The Struggle Between Faith and Reason, 1798 to Modern Times
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A Deadly Legacy: German Jews and the Great War
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The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War
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