Historical Essays

Last updated: January 2, 2012

1. The Souls Of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois Published: September 10, 2008 Score: 5.85
2. The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter Godwin Woodson Published: September 1, 2010 Score: 3.74
3. Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper - Case Closed by Patricia Daniels Cornwell and Kate Reading Published: February 1, 2002 Score: 3.55
4. The Time of Our Lives: A conversation about America; Who we are, where we've been, and where we need to go now, to recapture the American dream by Tom Brokaw Published: November 1, 2011 Score: 2.87
5. Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 by Simon Winchester Published: April 1, 2003 Score: 1.98
6. The Enemy (Kindle Single) by Christopher Hitchens Published: May 15, 2011 Score: 0.95
7. Ultimate Sacrifice: John and Robert Kennedy, the Plan for a Coup in Cuba, and the Murder of JFK by Lamar Waldron and Thom Hartmann Published: November 1, 2008 Score: 0.86
8. Ikigai by Sebastian Marshall Published: December 14, 2011 Score: 0.77
9. The Partly Cloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell and Katherine Streeter Published: August 27, 2002 Score: 0.75
10. Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Nineties by Paul Johnson Published: November 1, 1991 Score: 0.6
11. Von Clausewitz, On War (Routledge Library Editions) by General Carl von Clausewitz Published: November 23, 2004 Score: 0.57
12. An Unusual Journey Through Royal History (Unusual History) by Victoria Martinez Published: April 18, 2011 Score: 0.49
13. The Idea of America: Reflections on the Birth of the United States by Gordon S. Wood Published: May 12, 2011 Score: 0.42
14. This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War by James M. McPherson Published: October 12, 2009 Score: 0.41
15. China in Ten Words by Yu Hua and Allan H. Barr Published: November 8, 2011 Score: 0.41
16. The Notes: Ronald Reagan's Private Collection of Stories and Wisdom by Ronald Reagan Published: May 15, 2012 Score: 0.39
17. Deadline Artists: America's Greatest Newspaper Columns by John P. Avlon, Jesse Angelo and Errol Louis Published: September 21, 2011 Score: 0.36
18. The Willie Lynch Letter And The Making of A Slave by Willie Lynch Published: June 3, 2011 Score: 0.35
19. The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop: A Memoir, a History by Lewis Buzbee Published: June 25, 2010 Score: 0.33
20. History: Fiction or Science? by Anatole Fomenko, Franck Tamdhu and Michael Jagger Published: December 1, 2003 Score: 0.3
21. Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone by Eduardo Galeano Published: May 25, 2009 Score: 0.28
22. Five Chimneys: The Story of Auschwitz by Olga Lengyel Published: October 1, 1995 Score: 0.23
23. Eugenics and Other Evils (Classic Reprint) by G.K. Chesterton Published: March 12, 2010 Score: 0.18
24. The Revolt of the Masses by Jose OrtegaYGasset Published: February 17, 1994 Score: 0.15
25. The Royal W.E. Unique Glimpses of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor by Victoria Martinez, Jennifer Talty and Greg King Published: June 29, 2011 Score: 0.15