Before the Mayflower
by Lerone Bennett, Jr.... This enduring classic chronicles African American history starting from the black explorers and settlers, through t...

Don't Know Much About History
by Kenneth C. Davis... Through its lively anecdotes and emphasis on the impact of personalities on our nation's history, this book does its p...

Explorers Who Got Lost
by Diane Sansevere Dreher... Written in a very simple, friendly style, this book gives facts about famous explorers that expose them for what...

Eyewitness to History
edited by John Carey... "Remarkable first-hand accounts of the events that shaped civilization, from the siege of Jerusalem (AD 70) to the fa...

Histomap of World History
from Rand McNally... A chronology of history plotted with time lines can be a wonder fully concrete way to get a sense of the relationship of...

Indian Country
by Karen Harvey and Lisa Harjo... The goal of the book is to present to students the history of Native American people from their own perspec...

Larry Gonick's Cartoon Guide: History of the United States
by Larry Gonick... Gonick's guides promote laughter, and learning, to the point that you may not even notice that this is serious scholarship...

Larry Gonick's Cartoon Guide: History of the Universe I
by Larry Gonick... Gonick's guides promote laughter, and learning, to the point that you may not even notice that this is serious scholarship...

Larry Gonick's Cartoon Guide: History of the Universe II
by Larry Gonick... Gonick's guides promote laughter, and learning, to the point that you may not even notice that this is serious scholarship...

Lies My Teacher Told Me
by James W. Loewen... Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong. Lies My Teacher Told Me takes issue with the notion that young min...

People's History of the United States
by Howard Zinn... At last an account of history from the perspective of the working classes and native Americans. The stories of Indians, bla...

Susan B. Anthony Slept Here
by Lynn Sherr and Jurate Kazickas... A Guide to American Women's Landmarks. An indespensible guide to understanding the contributions of wome...

The Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History
Wilma Mankiller, Gwendolyn Mink, Marysa Navarro, Barbara Smith and Gloria Steinem, editors... More than 400 short narrative and interpretive ...

What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew
by Daniel Pool... From Fox Hunting to Whist -- the Facts of Daily Life in 19th Century England. An utterly fascinating study of British Victo...