world history – The Staircase Window

Apocalypse: How Catastrophe Transformed Our World and Can Forge New Futures

Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global

The Apothecary’s Wife: The Hidden History of Medicine and How It Became a Commodity

Empire of Purity: The History of Americans’ Global War on Prostitution

Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens

Whack Job: A History of Axe Murder

Melting Point: Family, Memory and the Search for a Promised Land

Spitfires: The American Women Who Flew in the Face of Danger During World War II

The Morning They Came for Us: Dispatches from Syria

Bad Friend: A Century of Revolutionary Friendships

Clay: A Human History

Protest!: A History of Social and Political Protest Graphics

A World of Our Own: Women Artists Against the Odds

Immaculate Forms: A History of the Female Body in Four Parts

Inventing Human Rights: A History

The Instability of Truth: Brainwashing, Mind Control, and Hyper-Persuasion

Four Red Sweaters: Powerful True Stories of Women and the Holocaust

Wages for Housework: The Feminist Fight Against Unpaid Labor

Looking at Women, Looking at War: A War and Justice Diary from Ukraine, with a foreword from Margaret Atwood

Pushback: The 2,500-Year Fight to Thwart Women by Restricting Abortion

Same River, Twice: Putin’s War on Women

Emilie Du Chatelet: Daring Genius of the Enlightenment

Propaganda Girls: The Secret War of the Women in the OSS

What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American GI in World War II France

Black Elegies: Meditations on the Art of Mourning (On Seeing)

A Short History of the World in 50 Lies

Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat

Humans: A Monstrous History

The Power of Art: A Human History of Art: From Babylon to New York City

A History of the World in 21 Women: A Personal Selection

Women Who Fly: Goddesses, Witches, Mystics, and other Airborne Females

Women in the World of the Earliest Christians: Illuminating Ancient Ways of Life

Who Cooked the Last Supper: The Women’s History of the World

The Living Medicine: How a Lifesaving Cure Was Nearly Lost—and Why It Will Rescue Us When Antibiotics Fail

Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol

Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman’s Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue

The Jamestown Brides

Scented Visions: Smell in Art, 1850-191

Ghosts: A Haunted History

The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World

From the Ashes: Grief and Revolution in a World on Fire

Witch Hunt: A Traveler’s Guide to the Power and Persecution of the Witch

Unruly Figures: Twenty Tales of Rebels, Rulebreakers, and Revolutionaries You’ve (Probably) Never Heard Of

Women Out of Bounds

What’s Her Name: A History of the World in 80 Lost Women

Wise Gals: The Spies Who Built the CIA and Changed the Future of Espionage

Women and Warfare in the Ancient World: Virgins, Viragos and Amazons

Vagabond Princess: The Great Adventures of Gulbadan

Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World

Life Stories of Women Artists, 1550-1800: An Anthology

Solidarity: The Past, Present, and Future of a World-Changing Idea

A History of Women in 101 Objects

Survivors: A History of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade

Vital Organs

The New Tourist: Waking Up to the Power and Perils of Travel

Remember My Story: A Girl, a Holocaust Survivor, and a Friendship That Made History

Making It in America: The Almost Impossible Quest to Manufacture in the U.S.A. (And How It Got That Way)

The Secrets Of Women Who Never Give Up: 11 Resilience Building Strategies Learned From Remarkable Women in History

The Furies: Women, Vengeance, and Justice

Remaking the World: Decolonization and the Cold War

Tea: A Global History

Smell Detectives: An Olfactory History of Nineteenth-Century Urban America

In Blood and Ashes: Curse Tablets and Binding Spells in Ancient Greece

Life Stories of Women Artists, 1550-1800: An Anthology

Essence and Alchemy: A Natural History of Perfume

Memoirs of a Wartime Interpreter: From the Battle for Moscow to Hitler’s Bunker

Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close

After Misogyny: How the Law Fails Women and What to Do about It

Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London

The Other Great Game: The Opening of Korea and the Birth of Modern East Asia

The Deadline

Policing Pregnant Bodies: From Ancient Greece to Post-Roe America

Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women’s Words

Rebel Folklore: Empowering Tales of Spirits, Witches, and Other Misfits from Anansi to Baba Yaga

Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World

Feminisms: A Global History

Fire and Rain: Nixon, Kissinger, and the Wars in Southeast Asia

When Women Ruled the Pacific: Power and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Tahiti and Hawai‘i

Flirting with Danger: The Mysterious Life of Marguerite Harrison, Socialite Spy

Naked Feminism: Breaking the Cult of Female Modesty

How Do We Look: The Body, the Divine, and the Question of Civilization

Liberty’s Dawn: A People’s History of the Industrial Revolution

Winters in the World: A Journey Through the Anglo-Saxon Year

Edison’s Ghosts: The Untold Weirdness of History’s Greatest Geniuses

Tomorrow Perhaps the Future: Following Writers and Rebels in the Spanish Civil War

No More Secrets: My Part in Codebreaking at Bletchley Park and the Pentagon

The Ottomans: A Cultural Legacy

The Real Valkyrie: The Hidden History of Viking Warrior Women

Heroines in History: A Thousand Faces

Silk Road: A New History

The True History of Merlin the Magician

Women and the Crusades

The Fight of Our Lives: My Time with Zelenskyy, Ukraine’s Battle for Democracy, and What It Means for the World

Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World

Woman Hating

Doing Women’s Film History: Reframing Cinemas, Past and Future

Art and Politics under Modern Dictatorships: A Comparison of Chile and Romania

Islam: A Short History (Modern Library Chronicles #2)