Read 12 History Books 2024

Hosted by hunziker

19 participants, 126 books added

Starts: Monday, 01 January 2024

Ends: Tuesday, 31 December 2024

 The goal is to read 12 History books in 2024. 

All books added
This Land Is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving by David J. Silverman

This Land Is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving

David J. Silverman

528 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history emotional informative reflective slow-paced
Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights by Gretchen Sorin

Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights

Gretchen Sorin

352 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction history race informative slow-paced
38 Nooses: Lincoln, Little Crow, and the Beginning of the Frontier's End by Scott W. Berg

38 Nooses: Lincoln, Little Crow, and the Beginning of the Frontier's End

Scott W. Berg

363 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
Twain's Feast: Searching for America's Lost Foods in the Footsteps of Samuel Clemens by Andrew Beahrs

Twain's Feast: Searching for America's Lost Foods in the Footsteps of Samuel Clemens

Andrew Beahrs

323 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history travel adventurous informative slow-paced
Tecumseh and the Prophet: The Shawnee Brothers Who Defied a Nation by Peter Cozzens

Tecumseh and the Prophet: The Shawnee Brothers Who Defied a Nation

Peter Cozzens

560 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative reflective sad slow-paced
The Apache Wars: The Hunt for Geronimo, the Apache Kid, and the Captive Boy Who Started the Longest War in American History by Paul Andrew Hutton

The Apache Wars: The Hunt for Geronimo, the Apache Kid, and the Captive Boy Who Started the Longest War in American History

Paul Andrew Hutton

528 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Love and Marriage in the Age of Jane Austen by Rory Muir

Love and Marriage in the Age of Jane Austen

Rory Muir

407 pages • first pub 2024 (editions) user-added

nonfiction history
Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Abraham Lincoln's Killer by James L. Swanson

Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Abraham Lincoln's Killer

James L. Swanson

448 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction history true crime informative fast-paced
The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church by Rachel L. Swarns

The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church

Rachel L. Swarns

352 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction history race religion emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War by Thomas G. Andrews

Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War

Thomas G. Andrews

386 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced