Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee by Dee Brown – a history of Indigenous Americans who were just trying to maintain their way of life and culture and how colonialization assimilated and annihilated them.
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**Chronicle Of The World** – General history from the Big Bang onwards.
Gives an overview of most major historical events in newspaper-column-format, a dip-in-and-out-type book big enough to be a literal doorstopper.
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Stranger in the Woods by Michael Finkel about a modern day hermit who lived in the woods for decades. Themes of isolation, society, technology and the justice system.
The Indifferent Stars Above by Daniel James Brown about the Donner Party. History, isolation, extreme circumstances, endurance, humanity and cannibalism.
Indigenous Peoples History of the US by Roxane Dunbar-Ortiz about the impact of colonization on indigenous peoples in the US. Themes of inequity, genocide, propaganda, and systemic racism.
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Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee by Dee Brown – a history of Indigenous Americans who were just trying to maintain their way of life and culture and how colonialization assimilated and annihilated them.
**Chronicle Of The World** – General history from the Big Bang onwards.
Gives an overview of most major historical events in newspaper-column-format, a dip-in-and-out-type book big enough to be a literal doorstopper.
Stranger in the Woods by Michael Finkel about a modern day hermit who lived in the woods for decades. Themes of isolation, society, technology and the justice system.
The Indifferent Stars Above by Daniel James Brown about the Donner Party. History, isolation, extreme circumstances, endurance, humanity and cannibalism.
Indigenous Peoples History of the US by Roxane Dunbar-Ortiz about the impact of colonization on indigenous peoples in the US. Themes of inequity, genocide, propaganda, and systemic racism.