Summer Reading Series: History

History related reading

Alexander, Caroline The Endurance: Shackleton Legendary Antarctic Expedition

Harper, Kenn. Give Me My Father’s Body: The Life of Minik, the New York Eskimo

Lanier, Shannon. Jefferson’s Children: The Story of One American Family

Least Heat-moon, William Columbus in the Americas

Marrin, Albert. Terror of the Spanish Main, Sir Henry Morgan and His Buccaneers

McCullough, David. John Adams

Poets of World War II

Rogasky, Barbara Smoke and Ashes: The Story of the Holocaust

Sagas of Icelanders: A Selection

Starkey, David. Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII

Tuchman, Barbara. A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

Ung, Loung. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

Von Drehle, David. Triangle: The Fire That Changed America

War Letters: Extraordinary Correspondence from American Wars

Watson, Peter. The Modern Mind: An Intellectual History of the 20th Century

Weatherford, Jack. Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World

Winchester, Simon. Krakatoa : The Day the World Exploded : August 27, 1883

Aronson, Marc. Witch Hunt: Mysteries of the Salem Witch Trials

Berg, A. Scott Lindbergh

Danticat, Edwidge. The Farming of Bones

Ellis, Joseph E. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation

Frank, Mitch. Understanding September 11, Answering Questions about the Attacks on America

Geras, Adele. Troy

Glancy, Diane.  Stone Heart: A Novel of Sacajawea

Enjoy.  Humanities is next.