I’m looking for suggestions on your favorite books about history you didn’t learn in school (for context, I am American).
I’d like well-written, engaging narratives that are well-researched. I am also open to historical fiction that has good factual basis to learn about other cultures and histories.
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1491 by Charles Mann
Howard Zinn’s [*A People’s History of the United States*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_People%27s_History_of_the_United_States) might be what you’re looking for. Zinn was an academic historian and this book is an examination of US history from the point of view of those who were disenfranchised, enslaved, etc.
{{The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon}}
{{How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney}}
{{Killing Hope by William Blum}}
{{Stalin by Domenico Losurdo}}
{{The Counter-Revolution of 1776 by Gerald Horne}}
{{An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz}}
Elizabeth Martinez, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Adam Serwer, the book callee ‘Working Class History’, Queer History of the US
The Global Cold War by Odd Arne Westad.
Takes an actually mostly objective look at interventionalist policies by the US, USSR, and others during the Col War without the propaganda.