Incoming Resources
- Kingdoms of faith, a new history of Islamic Spain, Brian A. Catlos
- The great cities in history, edited by John Julius Norwich
- The new wild west, black gold, fracking, and life in a North Dakota boomtown, Blaire Briody
- London's triumph, merchants, adventurers, and money in Shakespeare's city, Stephen Alford
- Walls, a history of civilization in blood and brick, David Frye
- Living with the gods, on beliefs and peoples, Neil MacGregor
- Great Pyramid of Giza, by Grace Hansen
- Civilization and its discontents, Sigmund Freud ; translated and edited by James Strachey ; with a biographical introduction by Peter Gay
- Creators, conquerors, and citizens, a history of ancient Greece, Robin Waterfield
- The heartland, an American history, Kristin L. Hoganson
- The China questions, critical insights into a rising power, edited by Jennifer Rudolph, Michael Szonyi
- Ursula K. Le Guin, conversations on writing, [Ursula K. Le Guin] with David Naimon
- About time, a history of civilization in twelve clocks, David Rooney
- Fantasyland, how America went haywire : a 500-year history, Kurt Andersen
- Scars of independence, America's violent birth, Holger Hoock
- Between two worlds, how the English became Americans, Malcolm Gaskill
- Dancing bears, true stories of people nostalgic for life under tyranny, Witold Szabłowski ; translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones
- Victorious century, the United Kingdom, 1800-1906, David Cannadine
- St. Petersburg, madness, murder, and art on the banks of the Neva, Jonathan Miles
- What have the Greeks done for modern civilisation?
- The Regency years, during which Jane Austen writes, Napoleon fights, Byron makes love, and Britain becomes modern, Robert Morrison
- The impulse society, America in the age of instant gratification, Paul Roberts
- Moral tribes, emotion, reason, and the gap between us and them, Joshua D. Greene
- This land, America, lost and found, Dan Barry
- Searching for the lost tombs of Egypt, Chris Naunton
- No time to spare, thinking about what matters, Ursula K. Le Guin ; introduction by Karen Joy Fowler
- Ancient Egypt, Written by Nick Pierce ; Illustrated by Andy Rowland
- Smoketown, the untold story of the other great Black Renaissance, Mark Whitaker
- The 50s, the story of a decade, The New Yorker ; edited by Henry Finder ; introduction by David Remnick
- The American spirit, who we are and what we stand for, David McCullough
- Al Capone and the 1933 World's Fair, the end of the gangster era in Chicago, William Elliott Hazelgrove