Ghengis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford, Three Rivers Press, 2004. A readable history about a part of the world that was never mentioned in my school years, and I'm learning also not mentioned in the school years of many other educated people in my cohort.
Kristin Lavransdatter 1: The Wreath by Sigrid Undset, Penguin books, originally published in Norwegian, 1920. Basically a romance novel set in the 13th century.
Mothers of Invention by Drew Gilpin Faust. A history of women and the changes that the Civil War imposed on the life of women. Interesting perspectives on the lives of southern women in the upper classes.
Founding Mothers, Cokie Roberts, 2005. About the women in the lives of our founding fathers. I'll have things to say about this if I have the guts to put it in writing.
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