- The Roman Empire, economy, society, and culture, Peter Garnsey & Richard Saller
- The Sumerians, their history, culture, and character, Samuel Noah Kramer
- The Shambhala guide to Sufism, Carl W. Ernst
- The fate of Africa, from the hopes of freedom to the heart of despair : a history of fifty years of independence, Martin Meredith
- Germany, Hitler, and World War II, essays in modern German and world history, Gerhard L. Weinberg
- FDR, the war president, 1940-1943, a history, Kenneth S. Davis
- Socialism since Marx:, a century of the European left
- Many thousands gone, the first two centuries of slavery in North America, Ira Berlin
- A people's history of the United States, 1492-present, Howard Zinn
- Time detectives, how archeologists use technology to recapture the past, by Brian Fagan
- The founders of the western world, a history of Greece and Rome, Michael Grant
- Why the allies won, Richard Overy
- The closing of the American mind, how higher education has failed democracy and impoverished the souls of today's students, Allan Bloom
- From dawn to decadence, 500 years of western cultural life : 1500 to the present, Jacques Barzun
- Disraeli
- The Russian Revolution, Richard Pipes
- The Oxford companion to the Bible, edited by Bruce M. Metzger, Michael D. Coogan
- Southeast Asia:, its historical development
- The Middle East, a brief history of the last 2,000 years, Bernard Lewis
- The coldest winter, America and the Korean War, David Halberstam
- Ancient inventions, Peter James & Nick Thorpe
- Ancient Greece, a political, social, and cultural history, by Sarah B. Pomeroy, Stanley M. Burstein, Walter Donlan, Jennifer Tolbert Roberts
- Modern times, modern places, by Peter Conrad
- The Oxford illustrated history of modern Europe, edited by T.C.W. Blanning
- Blackwater, the rise of the world's most powerful mercenary army, Jeremy Scahill
- The age of religious wars, 1559-1689, Richard S. Dunn
- Empire by default, the Spanish-American War and the dawn of the American century, Ivan Musicant
- The last days of innocence, America at war, 1917-1918, Meirion and Susie Harries
- Natasha's dance, a cultural history of Russia, Orlando Figes
- Theodore Rex, Edmund Morris
- Cultural atlas of Mesopotamia and the ancient Near East, by Michael Roaf