Hunter S. Thompson’s famous ‘60s book on the outlaw motorcycle gang. (Always include HST’s subtitles!)
Read MoreA book about ocean liners.
Read MoreA day-by-day account of the Schleicher chancellorship and the run-up of Hitler’s appointment as Chancellor.
Read MoreA novel about a “material girl” spiraling down in Weimar Berlin.
Read MoreA very Trump-era history of the barbarian invasion.
Read MoreA book about the antiquities trade and private collections by America’s only professor of art crime.
Read MoreAn anthropological work collecting the folklore of a survivor of the last slave ship to cross the Middle Passage, collected by one of the luminaries of the Harlem Renaissance.
Read MoreA Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Gen. Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, French Revolutionary general of African descent.
Read MoreA famous novelist’s memoir of the Biafran War.
Read MoreA book about the Taiping Rebellion, a millenarian uprising in China in the 1850s and ‘60s.
Read MoreA case study in sixteenth-century pop culture, as recorded through a victim of the Inquisition.
Read MoreEssays on the criminal dystopia that is the world’s oceans (from an Atlantic writer).
Read MoreA history of the Opium War.
Read MoreA book about America’s relationship with it's overseas possessions.
Read MoreA biography of three lives in the Great Migration.
Read MoreA horror novel that is a bit mad scientist, a bit Lovecraft, and a bit Donna Tartt.
Read MoreA caustic take on France in the 1930s.
Read MoreA triple-biography of famous scions of the “sacrificed generation,” with lives spanning the French Third Republic.
Read MoreArchaeology with satellites.
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