Below is a list of pertinent books I’ve read since keeping track a few years ago. The posts I write are drawn from information taken from these books and other sources. Feel free to contact me if you have questions about any of them or need recommendations.
**NOTE: This list is out of date by a great magnitude. The innumerable books I’ve read since updating this list consist of books on educational psychology and learning, curriculum and historical thinking skills education, economics, books about the harms of prolonged device usage on teenagers, and many others.
| Title | Author | Genre |
| Rise and Fall of the Third Reich | Shirer, William | World History |
| The Book of Five Rings | Musashi, Miyamoto | Philosophy |
| Conversations with Major Dick Winters | Kingseed, Cole | American History |
| The Analects | Confucius | Philosophy |
| Panzer Leader | Guderian, Heinz | Military History |
| Infantry Attacks | Rommel, Erwin | Military History |
| Common Sense | Paine, Thomas | American History |
| Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters | Winters, Dick | American History |
| A History of Warfare | Keegan, John | Military History |
| Second Treatise of Government | Locke, John | Philosophy |
| A Basic History of the United States, Volume 1 | Carson, Clarence | American History |
| A Basic History of the United States, Volume 2 | Carson, Clarence | American History |
| A Basic History of the United States, Volume 3 | Carson, Clarence | American History |
| A Basic History of the United States, Volume 4 | Carson, Clarence | American History |
| A Basic History of the United States, Volume 5 | Carson, Clarence | American History |
| Inhuman Bondage | Davis, David Brion | American History |
| Masters of Command | Barry Strauss | Military History |
| New Deal or Raw Deal? | Folsom Jr., Burton | American History |
| Company Commander | Macdonald, Charles | American History |
| Easy Company Soldier | Malarkey, Don | American History |
| American Sniper | Kyle, Chris | American History |
| New England Bound | Warren, Wendy | American History |
| The Half Has Never Been Told | Baptist, Edward | American History |
| The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass | Douglass, Frederick | American History |
| The Forgotten Soldier | Sajer, Guy | Military History |
| Call of Duty | Compton, Lynn “Buck” | American History |
| Combat Crew | Comer, John | American History |
| General Lee’s Army | Glatthar, Joseph | American History |
| And a Bottle of Rum | Curtis, Wayne | American History |
| A Gunner in Lee’s Army | Carter, Thomas Henry | American History |
| The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution | Bailyn, Bernard | American History |
| The Prince | Machiavelli, Niccolo | Philosophy |
| The Republic | Plato | Philosophy |
| Strategic Failure | Moyar, Mark | American History |
| The Federalist Papers | Hamilton, Madison, and Jay | American History |
| The Almost Nearly Perfect People | Booth, Michael | Cultural |
| A Patriot’s History of the United States | Schweikart, Larry | American History |
| An Indigenous People’s History of the United States | Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne | American History |
| Hard Tack and Coffee | Billings, John | American History |
| Decision in Philadelphia | Collier, Christopher | American History |
| Leadership: The Warrior’s Art | Kolenda, Christopher | Military History |
| The Face of Battle | Keegan, John | Miliatry History |
| George Washington’s Military Genius | Palmer, Dave | American History |
| The Middle Ages | Bishop, Morris | World History |
| Life in the Middle Ages | Winston, Richard | World History |
| Capitalism and Freedom | Friedman, Milton | Economics |
| Free to Choose | Friedman, Milton | Economics |
| A Well-Regulated Militia: The Founding Fathers and the Origins of Gun Control in America | Cornell, Saul | American History |
| We Were Soldiers Once… and Young: Ia Drang – The Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam | Moore, Hal | American History |
| Tigers in the Mud | Carius, Otto | Military History |
| The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left | Levin, Yuval | American History |
| Jefferson and His Times, Vol 1 | Malone, Dumas | American History |
| Jefferson and His Times, Vol 2 | Malone, Dumas | American History |
| The German War – A Nation Under Arms | Stargardt, Nicholas | Military History |
| Berlin Diary | Shirer, William | World History |
| Grant | Chernow, Ron | American History |
| Hamilton | Chernow, Ron | American History |
| Guns, Germs, and Steel | Diamond, Jared | World History |
| Origins of the Second World War | Taylor, A.J.P. | World History |
| The Trial of Adolph Hitler | King, David | World History |
| Blitzkrieg | Clark, Lloyd | Military History |
| Inside the Nazi War Machine | Alexander, Bevin | Military History |
| The Instant Economist | Taylor, Timothy | Economics |
| Competency Based Education and Assessment | Goodyear, Tina | Education |
| Basic Economics | Sowell, Thomas | Economics |
| The Road to Serfdom | Hayek, Friedrich A. | Economics |
| A Little History of Economics | Kishtainy, Niall | Economics |
| The Wealth of a Nation | Johnson, C. Donald | Economics |
| This Time is Different | Reinhart, Carmen | Economics |
| “Multiplication is for White People” | Delpit, Lisa | Education |
| Montessori Today | Lillard, Paula Polk | Education |
| Applied Economics | Sowell, Thomas | Economics |
| Poor Economics | Banerjee, Abhijit | Economics |
| The Big Three in Economics | Skousen, Mark | Economics |
| Teach Like Finland | Walker, Timothy | Education |
| Designing Effective Classroom Management | Harlacher, Jason | Education |
| Positive Discipline Tools for Teachers | Gfroerer, Kelly | Education |
| Better Than Carrots or Sticks: Restorative Practices for Positive Classroom Management | Smith, Dominique | Education |
| Affirmative Classroom Management | Curwin, Richard L. | Education |
| The School Discipline Fix | Ablon, Stuart | Education |
| The Social Transformation of American Medicine | Starr, Paul | American History |
| A People’s History of the United States | Zinn, Howard | American History |
| Washington: A Life | Chernow, Ron | American History |
| Choice Theory | Glasser, William | Psychology |
| Patrick Henry | Kukla, Jon | American History |
| Gunpowder: Alchemy, Bombards, And Pyrotechnics: The History Of The Explosive That Changed The World | Kelly, Jack | World History |
| Counterinsurgency | Killcullen, David | Military History |
| If Not Now, When? | Jacobs, Jack | American History |
| The Art of War | Sun Tzu | Military History |
| On War | von Clausewitz, Carl | Military History |
| Strategy | Hart, Basil Liddell | Military History |
| William Tecumseh Sherman: Memoir | Sherman, William | American History |
| How to Be an Antiracist | Kendi, Ibram X. | American History |
| Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead | Mattis, James | American History |
| First Recon– Second to None: A Marine Reconnaissance Battalion, 1967-1968 | Young, Paul | American History |
| With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa | Sledge, Eugene | American History |
| For the Common Defense: A Military History of the United States | Maslowski, Peter and Millett, Alan | American History |
| A Different Mirror: A Multi-Cultural History of the United States | Takaki, Ronald | American History |
| Teaching What Really Happened: How to Avoid the Tyranny of Textbooks and Get Students Excited About Doing History | Loewen, James | Education |
| Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America | Kendi, Ibram X. | American History |
| Tobacco: A Cultural History of How an Exotic Plant Seduced Civilization | Gately, Iain | World History |
| Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. | Chernow, Ron | American History |
| No Property in Man: Slavery and Anti-slavery at the Nation’s Founding | Wilentz, Sean | American History |
| The Heartbreak of Aaron Burr | Brands, H.W. | American History |
| Henry Clay: America’s Greatest Statesman | Unger, Harlow | American History |
| The Devil in the White City | Larson, Erik | American History |
| Forty Autumns | Willner, Nina | Cold War |
| Creating a World Without Poverty | Yunnus, Muhammad | Economics |
| A Little History of the World | Gombrich, Ernst | World History |
| A Short History of the World According to Sheep | Coulthard, Sally | World History |
| The House of Morgan | Chernow, Ron | American History |
| A Little History of Religion | Holloway, Richard | World History |
| Viruses, Plagues, & History | Oldstone, Michael | World History |
| “Why Won’t You Just Tell Us the Answer?”: Teaching Historical Thinking in Grades 7-12 | Lesh, Bruce A. | Education |
| Teaching U.S. History Beyond the Textbook: Six Investigative Strategies, Grades 5-12 | Williams, Yohuru R. | Education |
| History of the World | Roberts, J.M. | World History |
| A Splendid Exchange | Bernstein, William | World History |
| Why Learn History (When It’s Already On Your Phone) | Wineburg, Sam | Education |
| Civilization: The West and the Rest | Ferguson, Niall | World History |
| The Story of English in 100 Words | Crystal, David | Linguistics |
| The Lessons of History | Durant, Will and Ariel | General History |
| Why Don’t We Learn From History? | Liddell Hart, B.H. | General History |
| The Wealth and Poverty of Nations | Landes, David | Economic History |
| The Ascent of Money | Ferguson, Niall | Economic History |
| War! What is it Good For? | Morris, Ian | World History |
| Why the West Rules – For Now | Morris, Ian | World History |
| A History of the World in 6 Glasses | Standage, Tom | World History |
| The Cave and the Light | Herman, Arthur | General History |
| The Story of Civilization 1: Our Oriental Heritage | Durant, Will | World History |
| The Story of Civilization 2: The Life of Greece | Durant, Will | World History |
| The Decline and Rise of Democracy | Stasavage, David | Political History |
| In the Garden of Beasts | Larson, Erik | European History |
| A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived | Rutherford, Adam | Biological History |
| 1491: Revelations of Life in the Americas Before Columbus | Mann, Charles C. | American History |
| 1493: Examining the World Columbus Created | Mann, Charles C. | World History |
| Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts | Wineburg, Sam | Education |
| Agent Zigzag | Macintyre, Ben | European History |
| Holy Sh*t: A History of Swearing | Mohr, Melissa | World History |
| The Sea and Civilization | Pane, Lincoln | World History |
| The Splendid and the Vile | Larson, Erik | European History |
| Energy and Civilization: A History | Smil, Vaclav | World History |
| Assessing Historical Thinking and Understanding | VanSledright, Bruce | Education |
Currently reading: Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan
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