Hi fellow readers! I have always been a fiction reader, and a lover of fantastical fantasy. However, I watched the revenant for the first time last night (I know it is not entirely accurate) but I had an epiphany, that I know barely anything about history, minus major historical events. Then after the movie ended I found myself going down a history rabbit hole on Google.
What are some non-fiction books about history that you would reccomend as good beginner books? I’m particularly interested in the start of the new world, WWI and II, and native American history.
by krazycitty69
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A People’s History Of The United States by Howard Zinn is a good one. It’s been a while since I read it, maybe five-seven years, but I remember it making history feel real. It made it feel like living through the here and now, through people’s eyes.
*Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History* by S. C. Gwynne.
*The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II* by Iris Chang.
*The Journey of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca* by Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca. Translated by Fanny Bandelier.
*Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West* by Stephen Ambrose.
*The Eyes of Discovery: The Pageant of North America As Seen by the First Explorers* by John Edwin Bakeless.
*Across the Wide Missouri* by Bernard DeVoto (Pulitzer Prize Winner).
*The Course Of Empire* by Bernard DeVoto.
*The Florida of the Inca*
by Inca Garcilaso de la Vega.
*1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created* by Charles Mann.
*The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492* by Alfred W. Crosby.