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History

A list of books about history mentioned on the Joe Rogan Experience Podcast

Montcalm And Wolfe: The French And Indian War
by Francis Parkman
Gall: Lakota War Chief
by Robert W. Larson

biography
Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn
by Evan S. Connell
A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
by Bartolomé de las Casas
Hitler’s Table Talk, 1941-1944: His Private Conversations
by Adolf Hitler
The Gulag Archipelago
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
A Renegade History of the United States
by Thaddeus Russell
The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
by Timothy Egan
Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy
by Vincent Bugliosi
Mr. Stuart’s Track: The Forgotten Life of Australia’s Greatest Explorer
by John Bailey
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
by Charles C. Mann
The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East
by Robert Fisk
The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook
by Niall Ferguson
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
by Steven Pinker

psychology
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
by David Grann
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
by Dee Brown
The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History
by Howard Bloom

philosophy
The History of Alexander
by Quintus Curtius Rufus
The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia’s Founding
by Robert Hughes
Killing England: The Brutal Struggle for American Independence
by Bill O’Reilly & Martin Dugard
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples
by Winston Churchill
Memoirs of the Second World War
by Winston S. Churchill

military
How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland’s Heroic Role From the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe
by Thomas Cahill
History Begins at Sumer: Thirty-Nine Firsts in Recorded History
by Samuel Noah Kramer

ancient civilizations
Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America
by Annie Jacobsen

military
Secret Agenda: The United States Government, Nazi Scientists, and Project Paperclip, 1945-1990
by Linda Hunt

military
The Idea of Decline in Western History
by Arthur Herman
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
by Douglas A. Blackmon
The 48 Laws of Power
by Robert Greene

philosophy
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
by S. C. Gwynne
The Plot to Seize the White House: The Shocking True Story of the Conspiracy to Overthrow FDR
by Jules Archer

conspiracy
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
by Daniel Immerwahr
The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, An American Legend
by Bob Drury & Tom Clavin

biography
Blood and Thunder: The Epic Story of Kit Carson and the Conquest of the American West
by Hampton Sides
Hymns of the Republic: The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil War
by S. C. Gwynne
Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson
by S. C. Gwynne

biography
Crazy Horse: A Life
by Larry McMurtry

biography
Foundations of Western Civilization II: A History of the Modern Western World
by Robert Bucholz
The Oracle: Ancient Delphi and the Science Behind Its Lost Secrets
by William J. Broad
Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary
by Joe Jackson

biography
Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto
by Vine Deloria Jr.
Red Earth, White Lies: Native Americans and the Myth of Scientific Fact
by Vine Deloria Jr.
Black Elk Speaks
by John G. Neihardt
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
by David Grann
Storm of Steel
by Ernst Junger

military
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States
by James C. Scott
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
by William L. Shirer

military
Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves
by Adam Hochschild
The Plainsmen of the Yellowstone: A History of the Yellowstone Basin
by Mark H. Brown
A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca
by Andrés Reséndez
Seeds of Change: Five Hundred Years Since Columbus
by Herman J. Viola & Carolyn Margolis (Editors)
The Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War: The Untold History
by Monica Kim
Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire
by Roger Crowley
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
by Timothy Snyder
The Untold History of the United States
by Oliver Stone & Peter Kuznick
A People’s History of the United States
by Howard Zinn
The Histories
by Herodotus
1776
by David McCullough
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
by Jack Weatherford

biography
The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
by Tom Reiss

biography
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey
by Candice Millard

biography
Wicked River: The Mississippi When It Last Ran Wild
by Lee Sandlin
Lone Star: A History Of Texas And The Texans
by T. R. Fehrenbach
The Ancient City
by Numa Denis Fustel De Coulanges
The Missing of the Somme
by Geoff Dyer

military
Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS
by Joby Warrick

military
Rising Wolf, The White Blackfoot
by James Willard Schultz

biography
The Ruins of Empires
by C.F. Volney
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
by Reza Aslan

religion
The Last Indian War: The Nez Perce Story
by Elliott West
Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion
by Elliott West
An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe
by Benjamin Madley
The Comanche Empire
by Pekka Hamalainen
A Night To Remember
by Walter Lord
Fucking History: 52 Lessons You Should Have Learned in School.
by The Captain
Jerusalem: The Biography
by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Fighting Indians of the West
by Dee Brown with Martin F. Schmitt
Targeted: Beirut: The 1983 Marine Barracks Bombing and the Untold Origin Story of the War on Terror
by Jack Carr & James M. Scott
The Attack on the Liberty: The Untold Story of Israel’s Deadly 1967 Assault on a U.S. Spy Ship
by James M. Scott

military
The Secret History of the Mongols