These Are a Few of My Favorite (History) Things:
Books:
Documentaries:
- Don't Know Much About History, by Kenneth C. Davis
- Lies My Teacher Told Me, by James Loewen
- A People's History of The United States, by Howard Zinn
- 100 Greatest Stories Never Told, by Rick Beyer
- A Little History of the World, by E.H. Gombrich
- Safe for Democracy: Secret Wars of the CIA, by John Prados
- Team of Rivals, by Doris Kearns Goodwin
- Napoleon's Hemorrhoids: And Other Small Events That Changed the World, by Phil Mason
- You Did What?: Mad Plans and Great Historical Disasters, by Bill Fawcett
Documentaries:
- Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara
- Little Rock Central: 50 Years Later
- Inside North Korea (National Geographic)