William H. McNeill

Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur

by Ben Kiernan

Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy

by Barbara Ehrenreich

Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration

by Felipe Fernández-Armesto

War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History, 1500 to Today

by Max Boot

The Nature of Paleolithic Art

by R. Dale Guthrie

The Cave Painters: Probing the Mysteries of the World's First Artists

by Gregory Curtis

The Conquest of Nature: Water, Landscape, and the Making of Modern Germany

by David Blackbourn

The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind and Body

by Steven Mithen

Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin

by John Hope Franklin

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

by Charles C. Mann

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

The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700–2100:Europe, America, and the Third World

by Robert William Fogel

The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History

by John M. Barry

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

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

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

The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750-1920

by Andrew C. Isenberg

Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that Caused It

by Gina Kolata