Historical+Books+and+Films

Historical non-fiction:

//A Midwife's Tale, by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich // //The Unredeemed Captive//,// by John Demos // //The Sea Captain's Wife//, by Martha Hodes //America's Longest War//, by George C. Herring //The Death of Woman Wang//, // by Jonathan D. Spencer // //Immigrant Voices: New Lives in America//, ed. by Thomas Dublin How Washington //Really// Works, by Charles Peters //Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century//, // by Mark Mazower // //The Anatomy of Fascism//, by Robert O. Paxton //When Baghdad Ruled the Muslim World//, by Hugh Kennedy //The Italian Renaissance: The Essential Sources,// ed. Kenneth Gouwens //The World's Wisdom,// by Philip Novak //Empire,// by Niall Ferguson

Biographies:

//John Adams//, by David McCullough

Autobiographies:

//Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, by Frederick Douglass // //Walden,// by Henry David Thoreau //Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl,// by Harriet Jacobs //The Woman Warrior,// by Maxine Hong Kingston //Autobiography,// by Benjamin Franklin //Autobiography,// by Mark Twain

Historical Novels:

//North and South Books I-III//, by John Jakes //This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen, by Tadeusz Borowski // //Winds of War/War and Remembrance//, by Herman Wouk //The Daughter of Time,// by Josephine Tey //The Sunne in Splendour,// by Sharon Kay Penman //The Amelia Peabody// series, by Elizabeth Peters //The Last Silk Dress// and //Time Enough for Drums,// by Ann Rinaldi //The Kite Runner,// by Khaled Hosseini //How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents,// by Julia Alvarez

For a more complete list, see historicalnovels.info.

Historical films (I'm not vouching for their accuracy!):

//Gettysburg// //Glory// //North and South// //The Lion in Winter// //A Man for All Seasons// //Amistad// //Amazing Grace// //Amadeus// //Roots// //Gandhi// //Dances With Wolves// //Apollo 13// //The Great Escape// //The Book Thief// //Lincoln//

General History:

//A People's History of the United States,// by Howard Zinn (Googlebook link ) //Style in History,// by Peter Gay //Don't Know Much About History, by Kenneth C. Davis // //Lies My Teacher Told Me//, // by James W. Loewen // //A History of Britain//,// by Simon Schama // //1066 And All That//, // by Sellar and Yeatman // //Europe: A History//, by Norman Davie//s// //A History of the Arab Peoples, by Albert Hourani // //Africa's Discovery of Europe, by David Northrup // //Inventing the Middle Ages,// by Norman F. Cantor

Civics Films:

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Dave Wag the Dog My Fellow Americans Recount Thank You for Smoking

Documentaries:

Why We Fight Outfoxed Food, Inc. Freakonamics Super Size Me