Suggested Reading

Ambrose, S.E. Undaunted Courage, Merriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the    Opening of the West. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1996.

Blaise, Clark. Time Lord: Sir Sanford Fleming and the Creation of Standard Time
    NY: Pantheon Books, 2000.

Bodanis, David. E+MC˛: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation. NY: Walker     & Company, 2000.

Boorstin, D.J. Cleopatra's Nose: Essays on the Unexpected. NY: Random House, 1994.

Crosby, Alfred W. The Measure of Reality: Quantification and Western Society,     1250-1600.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Feyman, Richard P. Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most     Brilliant Teacher. NY: Addison-Wesley, 1995.

Fromkin, David. The Way of the World: From the Dawn of Civilizations to the Eve of the     Twentieth Century. NY: A.A. Knopf, 1999.

Garfield, Simon. Mauve: How One Man Invented a Color That Changed the World. NY: 
    W. W. Norton & Co., 2000. 

Gleeson, Janet. Millionaire: The Philanderer, Gambler, and Duelist Who Invented     Modern Finance. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1999.

Gilovich, Tom. How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason In     Everyday Life. NY: Free Press, 1991.

Hibbert, Christopher. Redcoats and Rebels: The American Revolution Through British     Eyes. NY: W.W. Norton and Co., 1990.

Hirsch, E.D., Jr. Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know. NY:     Houghton Mifflin Company, 1987.

Howard, Philip K. The Death of Common Sense: How Law Is Suffocating America. NY:     Random House, 1994.

Karlen, Arno. Man and Microbes: Disease and Plagues in History and Modern Times.     NY: Jeremy P. Tarcher, 1995.

Keay, John. The Great Arc: The Dramatic Tale of How India Was Mapped and Everest     Was Named. NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2000.

Lacy, Robert and Danziger, Danny. The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of     the First Millennium. Boston: Brown, Little and Company, 

Langguth, A.J. Patriots: The Men Who Started the American Revolution. NY: Simon &     Schuster, 1988.

Lavender, David. The Way to the Western Sea: Lewis and Clark Across the Continent.     NY: Harper and Row, Publishers, 1988.

Lewis, Michael. Next: The Future Just Happened. NY: W.W. Norton & Co., 2001. 

Loewen, J.L. Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook     Got Wrong. NY: The New Press, 1995.

Manchester, William. A World Lit Only By Fire. The Medieval Mind and the     Renaissance. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1992.

McPherson, J.M. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. NY: Oxford University Press,     1988.

Morton, Frederic. Thunder at Twilight: Vienna 1913/1914. NY: Charles Scribner's Sons,     1989.

O'Neill, John J. Prodigal Genius: The Life of Nikola Tesla. Albuquerque, New Mexico:     Brotherhood of Life, 1994.

Perko, Marko. Did You Know That...? NY: Authors Guild/Iuniverse. 2001. 

Shenkman, Richard. Legends, Lies & Cherished Myths of American History. NY:     William Morrow and Co., Inc, 1988.

Sinclair, Andrew. The Sword and the Grail: Of the Grail and the Templars and a True     Discovery of America. NY: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1992.

Sobel, Dava. Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest     Scientific Problem of His Time. NY: Walker and Co., 1995.

Van Doren, Charles. A History of Knowledge: Past, Present and Future. NY: Birch Lane     Press, 1991.

Viroli, Maurizio. Niccolo's Smile: A Biography of Machiavelli. NY: Farrar, Straus and     Giroux, 2000.

Wheatcroft, Andrew. The Habsburgs. NY: Viking, 1995.

Winchester, Simon. The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the     Making of the Oxford English Dictionary. HarperCollins Publishers, 1998.

Wood, G.S. The Radicalism of the American Revolution: How a Revolution Transformed     a Monarchial Society into a Democratic One Unlike Any That Had Ever Existed
    NY: A.A. Knopf, 1992.

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