William H. McNeill is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Chicago. His most recent books are The Pursuit of Truth: A Historian’s Memoir and Summers Long Ago: On Grandfather’s Farm and in Grandmother’s Kitchen, published by the Berkshire Publishing Group. His most recent publication, as editor, is the second edition of the Encyclopedia of World History.
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Man Slaughters Man
April 17, 2008
Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur
by Ben Kiernan
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‘Shall We Dance?’
November 22, 2007
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Shall We Dance?
September 27, 2007
Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy
by Barbara Ehrenreich
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How the Winds Changed History
April 12, 2007
Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration
by Felipe Fernández-Armesto
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Conspicuous Proliferation
December 21, 2006
War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History, 1500 to Today
by Max Boot
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Secrets of the Cave Paintings
October 19, 2006
The Nature of Paleolithic Art
by R. Dale Guthrie
The Cave Painters: Probing the Mysteries of the World’s First Artists
by Gregory Curtis
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Watch on the Rhine
June 22, 2006
The Conquest of Nature: Water, Landscape, and the Making of Modern Germany
by David Blackbourn
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Beyond Words
April 27, 2006
The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind and Body
by Steven Mithen
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The Man Who Changed History
January 12, 2006
Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin
by John Hope Franklin
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New World Symphony
December 1, 2005
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
by Charles C. Mann
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Ah, Wilderness!
September 22, 2005
Wandering Home: A Long Walk Across America’s Most Hopeful Landscape: Vermont’s Champlain Valley and New York’s Adirondacks
by Bill McKibben
Confluence: A River, the Environment, Politics, and the Fate of All Humanity
by Nathaniel Tripp, with a foreword by Howard Dean
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Alive!
November 18, 2004
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Bigger and Better?
October 21, 2004
The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700–2100:Europe, America, and the Third World
by Robert William Fogel
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Weapon of Mass Destruction
April 8, 2004
The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History
by John M. Barry
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The Big R
May 23, 2002
Racism: A Short History
by George M. Fredrickson
The Anatomy of Racial Inequality
by Glenn C. Loury
In the Image of God: Religion, Moral Values, and Our Heritage of Slavery
by David Brion Davis
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The Conservation of Catastrophe
December 20, 2001
Year of the Fires: The Story of the Great Fires of 1910
by Stephen J. Pyne
Jumping Fire: A Smokejumper’s Memoir of Fighting Wildfire
by Murry A. Taylor
Fire
by Sebastian Junger
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Continental Choo-Choo
September 20, 2001
Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad
by David Haward Bain
Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, 1863–1869
by Stephen E. Ambrose
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A Short History of Humanity
June 29, 2000
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Goodbye to the Bison
April 27, 2000
The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750-1920
by Andrew C. Isenberg
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The Flu of Flus
February 10, 2000
Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that Caused It
by Gina Kolata
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The Greatest Might-Have-Been of All
September 23, 1999
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Vivacious Ghost
November 5, 1998
How the Canyon Became Grand: A Short History
by Stephen J. Pyne
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How the West Won
April 23, 1998
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor by David S. Landes
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‘Guns, Germs, and Steel’
June 26, 1997
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History Upside Down
May 15, 1997
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
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Decline of the West?
January 9, 1997
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order by Samuel P. Huntington
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The Great Contest
June 20, 1996
The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2,000 Years
by Bernard Lewis
Cultures in Conflict: Christians, Muslims, and Jews in the Age of Discovery by Bernard Lewis
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The Plague of Plagues
July 21, 1983
The Black Death: Natural and Human Disaster in Medieval Europe by Robert S. Gottfried