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The Light Ages
Death by Shakespeare
The City on the Thames: The Creation of a World Capital: A History of London
Pax Romana: War, Peace and Conquest in the Roman World
Millennium: From Religion to Revolution: How Civilization Has Changed Over a Thousand Years
The Delusions of Crowds
The Plague Cycle: The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease
Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
Confident Women: Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Feminine Persuasion
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The Habsburgs

Inventing the World: Venice and the Transformation of Western Civilization
Four Lost Cities
A Short History of Humanity: A New History of Old Europe
Princes of the Renaissance
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night
Lotharingia: A Personal History of Europe's Lost Country
The Age of Wood
One Summer: America, 1927
An Atlas of Extinct Countries
Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence
Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe
The Anglo-Saxons A History of the Beginnings of England: 400–1066
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Uncrowned Queen

The Woman They Could Not Silence
The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science
Elizabeth & Margaret
How to Survive in Medieval England
A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome
The Exotic
Queens of the Crusades
The Viking Heart: How Scandinavians Conquered the World
Royal Witches: Witchcraft and the Nobility in Fifteenth-Century England
Metropolis
Maiden Voyages
Innovation
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
Powers and Thrones
Girly Drinks
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In the Shadow of the Empress

When Women Ruled the World
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
The Secret History of Food: Strange but True Stories About the Origins of Everything We Eat
The Bright Ages
A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes
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The Greeks

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The Shadow King

Twelve Caesars
Otherlands
A Brief History of Timekeeping: The Science of Marking Time, from Stonehenge to Atomic Clocks
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George V

New Rome: The Empire in the East
Doctoring the Black Death: Medieval Europe's Medical Response to Plague
Heiresses: The Lives of the Million Dollar Babies
Music Is History
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The Nineties

The Dark Queens
The Time Traveler's Guide to Regency Britain: A Handbook for Visitors to 1789–1830
Empire of the Scalpel: The History of Surgery
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream: The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer
The End of the River
Crown & Sceptre: A New History of the British Monarchy, from Willam the Conqueror to Elizabeth II
The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
France
The Tudors in Love: Passion and Politics in the Age of England's Most Famous Dynasty
Napoleon's Buttons
The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I
The Monster's Bones
Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past
A History of the World in 100 Animals
Doctors and Distillers: The Remarkable Medicinal History of Beer, Wine, Spirits, and Cocktails
The Wine-Dark Sea Within: A Turbulent History of Blood
Henrietta Maria: The Warrior Queen Who Divided a Nation
Vitamin C: A 500-Year Scientific Biography from Scurvy to Pseudoscience
Skirts: Fashioning Modern Femininity in the Twentieth Century
España: A Brief History of Spain
The Scandalous Hamiltons: A Gilded Age Grifter, a Founding Father's Disgraced Descendant, and a Trial at the Dawn of Tabloid Journalism
The Secret Poisoner: A Century of Murder
Nero: Matricide, Music, and Murder in Imperial Rome
Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement
The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire
Queens of the Age of Chivalry: England's Medieval Queens
Henry VIII: And the Men Who Made Him
Plagues Upon the Earth
Butts: A Backstory
Ten Tomatoes that Changed the World: A History
Geography Is Destiny
Culture: The Story of Us, From Cave Art to K-Pop
The Reopening of the Western Mind: The Resurgence of Intellectual Life from the End of Antiquity to the Dawn of the Enlightenment
Blood, Fire  Gold: The Story of Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici
Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am
Flapper: A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modern
The Gods and Goddesses of Greece and Rome: A Guide to the Classical Pantheon
White: The History of a Color
The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society
Femina
Cleopatra: Her History, Her Myth
Elizabeth & Philip: A Story of Young Love, Marriage, and Monarchy
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