List for my own purposes

[cyrano]

1776 -- David McCullough
A Crack in the Edge of the World -- Simon Winchester
Exploration and Empire -- William H. Goetzman
Oh What a Slaughter -- Larry McMurtry
The Scratch of the Pen (1763) -- Colin G. Calloway
Scotland, a History -- Jenny Wormald
Fighting Techniques of the Medieval World -- Bennett, DeVries, Bradbury, Dickie, Jestice
American Prometheus -- Bird and Sherwin
Doc Holliday the Life and Legend -- Gary L. Roberts
Team of Rivals, the Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln -- Doris Kearns Goodwin
A World Undone, the Story of the Great War -- GJ Meyer
*Illustrated History of the First World War -- John Keegan
Revolutionary Characters, What Made the Founders Different -- Gordon Wood
The Great Deluge, Hurricane Katrina New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast -- Douglas Brinkley
The Terror -- David Andress
The Oxford History of Christian Worship -- Geoffrey Wainwright and Karen Westerfield Tucker
*Lost Scriptures -- Bart D. Ehrman
*Lost Christianities -- Bart D. Ehrman