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An informative, uneven history of the digging-est science.
The Last Ships from Hamburg: Business, Rivalry, and the Race to Save Russia’s Jews on the Eve of World War I
By Steven Ujifusa
How a German shipping magnate tried to rescue his people.
The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium
By Anthony Kaldellis
An epic work of scholarship accessible to lay readers.
The Money Kings: The Epic Story of the Jewish Immigrants Who Transformed Wall Street and Shaped Modern America
By Daniel Schulman
An able, if incomplete, look at Manhattan’s long-ago financiers.
Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World
By Mary Beard
It’s lonely (and occasionally perverted) at the top.
American Confidential: Uncovering the Bizarre Story of Lee Harvey Oswald and His Mother
By Deanne Stillman
Adding questionable conjecture to the saga of JFK’s assassin.
American Visions: The United States, 1800-1860
By Edward L. Ayers
A broad, beneficent examination of the six decades before the Civil War.
Half American
By Matthew F. Delmont
Unheralded patriots finally get their due.
