Most Read This Week In History

History (from Greek ἱστορία - historia, meaning "inquiry, knowledge acquired by investigation") is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians. It is a field of research which uses a narrative to examine and analyse the sequence of events, and it sometimes attempts to investigate objectively the patterns of cause and effect that determine events. Historians debate the nature of history and its usefulness. This includes discu ...more

Most Read This Week Tagged "History"

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession

The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Cilka's Journey (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #2)

The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

Three Sisters (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #3)

The Midwife of Auschwitz (Women of War #1)

Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed

On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service

Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man

Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty

An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s

The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War

Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017

Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties

Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story

Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune

The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon

Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom

American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century

Killing the Witches: The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts

The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear

Troy (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #3)

A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy

All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II

Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World

Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV

How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement

Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country

Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America

The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World

Capote's Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era

Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country

The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America

The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World

Pandemic, Inc.: Chasing the Capitalists and Thieves Who Got Rich While We Got Sick

Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers

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“ I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past. ...more ”
― Virginia Woolf

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