Book List
This is the history book list from Susan Wise Bauer's Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had, which I am following:
- The Histories by Herodotus
- The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
- The Republic by Plato
- Lives by Plutarch
- The City of God by Augustine
- The Ecclesiastical History of the English People
- The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
- Utopia by Thomas More
- The True End of Civil Government by John Locke
- The History of England, Volume V by David Hume
- The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Common Sense by Thomas Paine
- The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
- Democracy in America by Alexis De Tocqueville
- The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
- The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt
- The Soul of Black Folks by W.E.B. Du Bois
- The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber
- Queen Victoria by Lytton Strachey
- The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell
- The New England Mind by Perry Miller
- The Great Crash 1929 by John Kenneth Kalbraith
- The Longest Day by Cornelius Ryan
- The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
- Roll, Jordan Roll: The World the Slaves Made by Eugene D. Genovese
- A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century by Barbara Tuchman
- All the President's Men by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
- Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James M. Mchperson
- A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
- The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama
More On History
- The Lessons of History by Will Durant
- A Student's Guide to Studying History by James Lukacs