Histories (post-1900) from The Well-Educated Mind
Explore a curated list of post-1900 history books from *The Well-Educated Mind*—essential reads for deepening your understanding of modern historical events and perspectives.
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The Road to Wigan Pier
by George Orwell
In the 1930s Orwell was sent by a socialist book club to investigate the appalling mass unemployment in the industrial north of England. He went …
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The Great Crash, 1929
by John Kenneth Galbraith
An examination of the stock market crash of 1929.
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Longest Day
by Cornelius Ryan
The unparalleled, classic work of history that recreates the battle that changed World War II—the Allied invasion of Normandy. The Longest Day is Cornelius Ryan’s …
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The Feminine Mystique
by Betty Friedan
The book that changed the consciousness of a country—and the world. Landmark, groundbreaking, classic—these adjectives barely describe the earthshaking and long-lasting effects of Betty Friedan's …
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A Distant Mirror
by Barbara W. Tuchman
A “marvelous history”* of medieval Europe, from the bubonic plague and the Papal Schism to the Hundred Years’ War, by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of …
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A Midwife's Tale
by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • Drawing on the diaries of one woman in eighteenth-century Maine, "A truly talented historian unravels the fascinating life of a community …
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