American History
Democracy in America (1835) by Alex de Tocqueville
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) by Harriet Beecher Stowe
How the Other Half Lives (1890) by Jacob Riis
The Jungle (1906) by Upton Sinclair
1776 (2005) by David McCullough
The Story of American Freedom (1994) by Eric Foner
In the Kingdom of Ice (2014) by Hampton Sides
Western Civilization
Histories (c. 440 BC) by Herodotus
The Guns of August (1965) by Barbra Tuchman
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (2015) by Mary Beard
Why Nations Fail (2012) by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson
Guns, Germs, and Steel (1997) by Jared Diamond
Rise and Fall of Great Civilizations (1987) by Paul Kennedy
Middle Eastern History
Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1922) by T.E. Lawrence
A History of the Middle East (1013) by Peter Mansfield
The Lexus and the Olive Tree (1999) by Thomas Friedman
From Beirut to Jerusalem (1989) by Thomas Friedman
Lawrence in Arabia (2013) by Scott Anderson
The Prince of Marshes (2006) by Rory Stewart
Asian History
The Opium War, 1840-1842 (2000) by Peter Ward Fay
The Man Who Loved China (2008) by Garrison Kiellor
Caravans (1963) by James Michener
The Places in Between (2004) by Rory Stewart
Cohen, W., East Asia at the Center (New York, 2000).
Ebrey, P. et al., East Asia: A Cultural, Social and Political History (Boston, 2006).
Goldman, M. et al., eds, Historical Perspectives on Contemporary East Asia (Cambridge, Mass., 2000)
Holcombe, Ch., The Genesis of East Asia, 221 BC – AD 907 (Honolulu, 2001).
Schirokauer, C. et al., Modern Asia: A Brief History (Boston, 2008)
Latin History
Born in Blood and Fire: A Concise History of Latin America (2000) by John Charles Chasteen
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of a Pillage of a Continent (1971) by Eduardo Galeano
Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten City (2009) by Greg Grandin
1491: New Revelations About the Americas before Columbus (2005) by Charles C. Mann
Women’s History
The Book of the City of Ladies (1995) by Christine de Pizan
The Worth of Women (16c.) by Moderata Fonte
The New Blazing World (1666) by Margaret Cavendish
The Second Sex (1949) by Simone de Beauvoir