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Under the Radar: The Date’s the Thing: Histories of Time Periods

  • The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium by Robert Lacey
  • 1215: The Year of the Magna Carta by Danny Danziger
  • 1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West by Roger Crowley
  • 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann
  • 1688: A Global History by John W. Wills
  • 1776 by David McCullough
  • The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution by David O. Stewart
  • 1789: The Threshold of the Modern Age by David Andress
  • 1848: Year of Revolution by Mike Rapport
  • Shenandoah 1862: Stonewall Jackson’s Valley Campaign by Peter Cozzens
  • Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret Macmillan and Richard Holbrooke
  • 1968: The Year That Rocked the World by Mark Kurlansky

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2 Responses to “Under the Radar: The Date’s the Thing: Histories of Time Periods”

  1. Cindy Orr says:
    June 12, 2009 at 1:34 pm

    Great idea, Sarah! Maybe we can do that one. Thanks.

  2. Sarah says:
    June 10, 2009 at 12:39 pm

    AND for those who either like detail or have a short attention span – how about books about DAYS? For instance, KRAKATOA, the day the earth exploded by Simon Winchester.

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