Hall of Fame Favorites:

Timothy. Snyder, Bloodlands : Europe between Hitler and Stalin. New York :Basic Books, 2010.

Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined. New York: Viking, 2011.

Rebecca Spang, The Invention of the Restaurant: Paris and Modern Gastronomic Culture. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000.

Trevor Burnard and John Garrigus, The Plantation Machine: Atlantic Capitalism in French Saint-Domingue and British Jamica. Philadelphia: University of Philadelphia Press, 2016.

Daron Acemoglu, Daron and James A. Robinson, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Posperity and Poverty. New York, Crown Publishers, 2012.

Robert J. Gordon, The Rise and Fall of American Growth : The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016.

Recently Read Recommended Books:

Mark Koyama and Jared Rubin, How the World Became Rich: The Historical Origins of Economic Growth. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2022.

Max Boot, Reagan: His Life and Legend . New York: Liveright, 2024.

Brad De Long, Slouching towards Utopia : An Economic History of the Twentieth Century. New York: Basic Books, 2022.

Iris Chang, The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II (New York: Penguin, 1998).

Marc Levinson, The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger. Second edition. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2016.