https://pithybooks.com/tags/history/ Latest Pithy Books summaries tagged “history”. en Fri, 02 Oct 2026 18:12:09 GMT https://pithybooks.com/books/a-short-history-of-nearly-everything/ https://pithybooks.com/books/a-short-history-of-nearly-everything/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Bryson asks how we know what we know, from atoms to continents, with humor and awe. https://pithybooks.com/books/between-the-world-and-me/ https://pithybooks.com/books/between-the-world-and-me/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Coates writes to his son about the Black body in America, from Howard to the loss of Prince Jones. https://pithybooks.com/books/john-adams/ https://pithybooks.com/books/john-adams/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT McCullough follows Adams from Braintree lawyer to second president. https://pithybooks.com/books/killers-of-the-flower-moon/ https://pithybooks.com/books/killers-of-the-flower-moon/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT In 1920s Oklahoma, Osage oil wealth makes tribal members targets for murder, forcing the young FBI under Tom White to expose the conspiracy behind the Reign of Terror. https://pithybooks.com/books/maus-i/ https://pithybooks.com/books/maus-i/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Art Spiegelman interviews his father Vladek about Sosnowiec and Auschwitz, drawing Jews as mice in this tense father and son memoir. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-boys-in-the-boat/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-boys-in-the-boat/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Washington rowers led by Joe Rantz chase gold in Hitler's Berlin in 1936. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-prince/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-prince/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Machiavelli advises Lorenzo on rule through fear and love, fortune, cruelty and mercy. https://pithybooks.com/books/guns-germs-and-steel/ https://pithybooks.com/books/guns-germs-and-steel/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Diamond argues geography and crops explain why some societies expanded faster than others. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-crucible/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-crucible/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Salem witch trials inflame fear as John Proctor faces confession and conscience. https://pithybooks.com/books/a-discovery-of-witches/ https://pithybooks.com/books/a-discovery-of-witches/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Historian Diana Bishop calls up a lost alchemical manuscript in Oxford's Bodleian Library and draws vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont, plus every creature hunting the book's secret. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-devil-in-the-white-city/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-devil-in-the-white-city/ Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Architect Burnham builds the 1893 Chicago Fair while H.H. Holmes builds his murder hotel nearby. https://pithybooks.com/books/unbroken/ https://pithybooks.com/books/unbroken/ Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Louis Zamperini survives a Pacific crash, sharks and POW camps after running in the Berlin Olympics. https://pithybooks.com/books/night/ https://pithybooks.com/books/night/ Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Elie Wiesel's account of Sighet, the cattle cars, Auschwitz and Buchenwald, told in short flat sections by a boy about fifteen. Why the book carries the year 1956, and what it leaves out. https://pithybooks.com/books/diary-of-a-young-girl/ https://pithybooks.com/books/diary-of-a-young-girl/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Anne Frank's diary explained: two years in the Secret Annex, the entries on fear and boredom, what Otto Frank cut, and why the book still reads like a conversation. https://pithybooks.com/books/sapiens/ https://pithybooks.com/books/sapiens/ Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Harari's Sapiens from cover to cover: the cognitive revolution, the agricultural bargain, shared fictions like money and nations, and the scientific centuries that made Homo sapiens the animal that rewrote its own rules.