Recommended Books – History/Anthropology

  • 1491, by Charles Mann
  • A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy, David M. Oshinsky
  • Beginnings of Cultivation in the Midwest-Riverine Area of the United States, Stuart Struever
  • Biggest Estate on Earth, Bill Gammage
  • Chalice and the Blade, by Riane Eisler
  • Creature from Jekyll Island, G. Edward Griffin
  • Gaia, by James Lovelock
  • Great Migrations, by Quercus
  • Green History of the World, by Clive Ponting
  • Killers of the Flower Moon: Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, by David Grann
  • Koster: Americans in Search of Their Prehistoric Past, Stuart Struever and Felicia A. Holton
  • Living Arctic, Hugh Brody
  • Manufactured Consent, Noam Chomsky
  • Middle Woodland Culture History in the Great Lakes Riverine Area American Antiquity, Stuart Stuever
  • My Life with the Eskimos, by Vilhjalmur Stefansson
  • Native American Architecture, by Peter Nabokov and Robert Easton
  • People’s History of the United States, Howard Zinn
  • Peoples History of the World, by Chris Harmon
  • Propaganda, Edward Bernays
  • Salvation on Sand Mountain, Dennis Covington
  • Woodland Subsistence-Settlement Systems in the Lower Illinois Valley. In “New Perspectives in Archaeology, Stuart Struever.
January 19, 2026