Guide No Longer Updated
As of July 2023 this guide—started during the early days of the COVID 19 pandemic—is no longer being actively updated or maintained. For an up-to-date listing of history eBooks (and audio books) please see the History section in OverDrive/Libby.
History
Books are listed by author's surname.
Alabama v. King: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Criminal Trial That Launched the Civil Rights Movement by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9780369720481Publication Date: 2022
Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day by ISBN: 9781419730993Publication Date: 2018
Dewey Defeats Truman: The 1948 Election and the Battle for America's Soul by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781328588593Publication Date: 2020
The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781101200971Publication Date: 2005
No One Man Should Have All That Power: How Rasputins Manipulate the World by ISBN: 9781419734557Publication Date: 2019
They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9780547488035Publication Date: 2013
Faster: How a Jewish Driver, an American Heiress, and a Legendary Car Beat Hitler’s Best by ISBN: 9781328489876Publication Date: 2020
Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home by ISBN: 9781501169434Publication Date: 2019
The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir by Call Number: EBSCOISBN: 9781982148058Publication Date: 2020
Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement by ISBN: 9781620973363Publication Date: 2018
A Black Women's History of the United States by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9780807033562Publication Date: 2020
Before and After Alexander : The Legend and Legacy of Alexander the Great by ISBN: 9781590207406Publication Date: 2018
The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9780300271249Publication Date: 2023
An Illustrated Guide to Samurai History and Culture: From the Age of Musashi to Contemporary Pop Culture by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781462923137Publication Date: 2022
The Zealot and the Emancipator: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and the Struggle for American Freedom by ISBN: 9780385544009Publication Date: 2020
An Environmental History of the Civil War by Call Number: Project MUSEISBN: 9781469655383Publication Date: 2020
A Short History of Nearly Everything: Special Illustrated Edition by ISBN: 9780307885159Publication Date: 2010
Black Detroit: A People's History of Self-Determination by ISBN: 9780062346629Publication Date: 2017
The Black Man's President: Abraham Lincoln, African Americans, and the Pursuit of Racial Equality by ISBN: 9781643138145Publication Date: 2021
Recasting the Vote: How Women of Color Transformed the Suffrage Movement by ISBN: 9781469659329Publication Date: 2020
To Kidnap a Pope: Napoleon and Pius VII by Call Number: De Gruyter Online BooksISBN: 9780300251333Publication Date: 2021
Notorious Royal Marriages: A Juicy Journey Through Nine Centuries of Dynasty, Destiny, and Desire by ISBN: 9781101159774Publication Date: 2018
The Red Menace: How Lipstick Changed the Face of American History by ISBN: 9781633887107Publication Date: 2021
The Hijacked War: The Story of Chinese POWs in the Korean War by ISBN: 9781503605879Publication Date: 2020
Ghosts of Gold Mountain: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad by ISBN: 9781328618573Publication Date: 2019
Enemies in Love: A German POW, a Black Nurse, and an Unlikely Romance by ISBN: 9781620971864Publication Date: 2018
The Black President: Hope and Fury in the Age of Obama by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781421441894Publication Date: 2021
A Brief History of Japan: Samurai, Shogun and Zen: The Extraordinary Story of the Land of the Rising Sun by ISBN: 9784805313893Publication Date: 2017
When They Go Low, We Go High: Speeches That Shape the World and Why We Need Them by ISBN: 9781468316162Publication Date: 2018
Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9780358251408Publication Date: 2021
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9780807000410Publication Date: 2014
Not a Nation of Immigrants: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion by ISBN: 9780807036297Publication Date: 2021
The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789 by ISBN: 9780385353403Publication Date: 2015
A Place Like Mississippi: A Journey Through a Real and Imagined Literary Landscape by ISBN: 9781604699586Publication Date: 2021
Conquering Heroines: How Women Fought Sex Bias at Michigan and Paved the Way for Title IX by ISBN: 9780472037889Publication Date: 2020
Basilisks and Beowulf: Monsters in the Anglo-Saxon World by ISBN: 9781789144338Publication Date: 2021
Uncontrollable Blackness: African American Men and Criminality in Jim Crow New York by ISBN: 9781469655727Publication Date: 2020
Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781631495830Publication Date: 2021
Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana by Call Number: Cambridge CoreISBN: 9781108480642Publication Date: 2020
All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopedia by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9780063292291Publication Date: 2023
Never Turn Back: China and the Forbidden History of The 1980s by ISBN: 9780674241848Publication Date: 2022
The Very Secret Sex Lives of Medieval Women by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781642503074Publication Date: 2020
As Long As Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock by ISBN: 9780807073780Publication Date: 2019
The Golden Thirteen: How Black Men Won the Right to Wear Navy Gold by ISBN: 9780807021583Publication Date: 2020
Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9780062368768Publication Date: 2016
January Moon: The Northern Cheyenne Breakout from Fort Robinson, 1878-1879 by ISBN: 9780806164786Publication Date: 2020
In a Single Blow: The Battles of Lexington and Concord and the Beginning of the American Revolution April 19, 1775 by ISBN: 9781611213799Publication Date: 2018
Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781631497506Publication Date: 2022
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9780593230589Publication Date: 2021
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9780062316103Publication Date: 2015
From the Lookout: Memories of Peninsula State Park's Summer Camp for Girls by ISBN: 9780870209383Publication Date: 2020
The Curse of the Pharaohs' Tombs: Tales of the Unexpected Since the Days of Tutankhamun by ISBN: 9781781593660Publication Date: 2017
For All Humankind: The Untold Stories of How the Moon Landing Inspired the World by ISBN: 9781642500967Publication Date: 2020
A Silent Fury: The El Bordo Mine Fire by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781911508793Publication Date: 2020
A Haunted History of Invisible Women: True Stories of America's Ghosts by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9780806541594Publication Date: 2022
Reckoning: The Epic Battle Against Sexual Abuse and Harassment by ISBN: 9781328566447Publication Date: 2019
The Witch: A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9780300231243Publication Date: 2020
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9780374715120Publication Date: 2019
Engines of Change: A History of the American Dream in Fifteen Cars by ISBN: 9781451640649Publication Date: 2013
The Last Train Robber: The Life and Times of Willis Newton by ISBN: 9781493046089Publication Date: 2020
Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9780063212442Publication Date: 2021
Damaged Heritage: The Elaine Race Massacre and a Story of Reconciliation by ISBN: 9781643134666Publication Date: 2020
The Organ Thieves: The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in the Segregated South by ISBN: 9781982107543Publication Date: 2020
Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781541646827Publication Date: 2020
FDR's Gambit: The Court Packing Fight and the Rise of Legal Liberalism by Call Number: EBSCOISBN: 9780197539293Publication Date: 2022
Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases by ISBN: 9781523513291Publication Date: 2021
Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781523501854Publication Date: 2017
The Other Madisons: The Lost History of a President's Black Family by ISBN: 9781328604392Publication Date: 2020
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 by Call Number: EBSCOISBN: 9780593134047Publication Date: 2021
A Boob's Life: How America's Obsession Shaped Me—and You by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781643136233Publication Date: 2021
If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781631496110Publication Date: 2020
The Illustrated Feminist: 100 Years of Suffrage, Strength, and Sisterhood in America by ISBN: 9781419742118Publication Date: 2020
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781620973929Publication Date: 2018
The Story of Work: A New History of Humankind by Call Number: De Gruyter Online BooksISBN: 9780300256796Publication Date: 2021
Ding Dong! Avon Calling!: The Women and Men of Avon Products, Incorporated by ISBN: 9780190499822Publication Date: 2021
Don't Lose Your Head: Life Lessons from the Six Ex-Wives of Henry VIII by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781646041282Publication Date: 2021
Midnight in Vehicle City: General Motors, Flint, and the Strike That Created the Middle Class by ISBN: 9780807039670Publication Date: 2021
Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America by ISBN: 9780190846992Publication Date: 2019
The Baltimore Black Sox: A Negro Leagues History, 1913-1936 by ISBN: 9781476677712Publication Date: 2020
The First Code Talkers: Native American Communicators in World War I by Call Number: EBSCOISBN: 9780806168418Publication Date: 2021
The 10 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time: Decoding History's Unsolved Mysteries by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781523513611Publication Date: 2020
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781984855008Publication Date: 2021
Empire of Rubber: Firestone's Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781620973783Publication Date: 2021
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by ISBN: 9781492649359Publication Date: 2017
Rocket Age: The Race to the Moon and What It Took to Get There by ISBN: 9781633886360Publication Date: 2020
The Schneider Trophy Air Races: The Development of Flight From 1909 to the Spitfire by Call Number: EBSCOISBN: 9781526770011Publication Date: 2021
Cursed Objects: Strange but True Stories of the World's Most Infamous Items by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781683692379Publication Date: 2020
Doing Their Bit: The British Employment of Military and Civil Defence Dogs in the Second World War by ISBN: 9781912390687Publication Date: 2019
The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America by ISBN: 9781476798035Publication Date: 2019
An African American and Latinx History of the United States by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9780807013908Publication Date: 2018
Lawbreaking Ladies: 50 Tales of Daring, Defiant, and Dangerous Women from History by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781982147099Publication Date: 2021
Voices of the Codebreakers: Personal Accounts of the Secret Heroes of World War II by ISBN: 9781784383138Publication Date: 2018
Sugar, Cigars, and Revolution: The Making of Cuban New York by ISBN: 9780814767276Publication Date: 2018
Yale Needs Women: How the First Group of Girls Rewrote the Rules of an Ivy League Giant by ISBN: 9781492687740Publication Date: 2019
Truth: A Brief History of Total Bullsh*t by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781488076770Publication Date: 2020
Haste to Rise: A Remarkable Experience of Black Education during Jim Crow by ISBN: 9781629637907Publication Date: 2020
Indecent Advances: A Hidden History of True Crime and Prejudice Before Stonewall by ISBN: 9781640091894Publication Date: 2019
The Family Roe: An American Story by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9780393247725Publication Date: 2021
Culture: The Story of Us, from Cave Art to K-Pop by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9780393868005Publication Date: 2023
We the People: The 500-Year Battle Over Who Is American by ISBN: 9781538128541Publication Date: 2019
Forgotten Continent: A History of the New Latin America by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9780300231700Publication Date: 2020
America's Original Sin: White Supremacy, John Wilkes Booth, and the Lincoln Assassination by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781421441627Publication Date: 2021
How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America by ISBN: 9780190900908Publication Date: 2020
A History Lover's Guide to Detroit by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781439665770Publication Date: 2020
Violence in the Hill Country: The Texas Frontier in the Civil War Era by ISBN: 9781477321751Publication Date: 2021
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781631492860Publication Date: 2017
Coffeeland: One Man's Dark Empire and the Making of Our Favorite Drug by ISBN: 9781594206153Publication Date: 2020
A Second Reckoning: Race, Injustice, and the Last Hanging in Annapolis by ISBN: 9781640124653Publication Date: 2021
Righteous Troublemakers: Untold Stories of the Social Justice Movement in America by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9780369719126Publication Date: 2022
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9780062363619Publication Date: 2016
Signs of Resistance: A Visual History of Protest in America by ISBN: 9781579658663Publication Date: 2018
Witch Hunt: A Traveler's Guide to the Power and Persecution of the Witch by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781633411739Publication Date: 2020
The Musical Human: A History of Life on Earth by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781526602749Publication Date: 2021
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781101870952Publication Date: 2017
Women on Wheels: The Scandalous Untold History of Women in Bicycling by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781621062073Publication Date: 2021
Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America by ISBN: 9781419738173Publication Date: 2020
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781608468683Publication Date: 2017
Four Days in Hitler's Germany: Mackenzie King's Mission to Avert a Second World War by ISBN: 9781487505509Publication Date: 2019
The Silk Roads: A History of the Great Trading Routes Between East and West by ISBN: 9781788883344Publication Date: 2018
Lost States: True Stories of Texlahoma, Transylvania, and Other States That Never Made It by ISBN: 9781594744105Publication Date: 2014
The Rope: A True Story of Murder, Heroism, and the Dawn of the NAACP by ISBN: 9781982114022Publication Date: 2021
That Field of Blood: The Battle of Antietam, September 17, 1862 by ISBN: 9781611213751Publication Date: 2018
The Swamp Peddlers: How Lot Sellers, Land Scammers, and Retirees Built Modern Florida and Transformed the American Dream by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781469663166Publication Date: 2021
The Lost Education of Horace Tate: Uncovering the Hidden Heroes Who Fought for Justice in Schools by ISBN: 9781620971055Publication Date: 2018
Himmler's Hostages: The Untold Story of Himmler's Special Prisoners and the End of WWII by Call Number: EBSCOISBN: 9781526785855Publication Date: 2021
Glory Days: The Summer of 1984 and the 90 Days That Changed Sports and Culture Forever by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781328637901Publication Date: 2021
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9780679604075Publication Date: 2010
Stalag XXA and the Enforced March from Poland by Call Number: EBSCOISBN: 9781526754462Publication Date: 2020
Rise: A Pop History of Asian America From the Nineties to Now by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9780358525882Publication Date: 2022
The Girl Explorers: The Untold Story of the Globetrotting Women Who Trekked, Flew, and Fought Their Way Around the World by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781728215242Publication Date: 2021
A Young People's History of the United States by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781644212523Publication Date: 2022
