Short fantastic read into the greatest college experiment.

A very comprehensive read on the philosophy of the catholic church throughout it's history. The amount of density in this book has delay the my reading stack!

Good companion to Jean-Luc Godard films and the like. Would categorize as social history. Used for a research project.

Good reference book for knowledge on public opinions 1930-1990. Seems slightly dated for political usage but historically useful as a reference. Used for a research project.

If you don't have the time for the complete Story of Civilization series.

L'etat c'est moi

A wonderful volume, where history starts become modern. In this sense the scientific and philosophical worlds emerge.

The world will never be the same and hasn't since.

This volume, although on the shorter side, begins with Dante's life and exile and ends with Martin Luther visiting the Vatican.

A very long volume, consider this volume to be two.

"There is no greater drama in human record than the sight of a few Christians, scorned or oppressed by a succession of emperors, bearing all trials with a fierce tenacity, multiplying quietly, building order while their enemies generated chaos, fighting the sword with the word, brutality with hope, and at last defeating the strongest state that history has known. Caesar and Christ had met in the arena, and Christ had won."

One of the shorter volumes and possibly the most easiest to consume.

Not since Gibbon could such works of history exist. This first volumn I own two of; first because I own the set and second so I can let others borrow it.

"to describe the prosperous condition of their empire; and afterwards, from the death of Marcus Antoninus, to deduce the most important circumstances of its decline and fall, a revolution which will ever be remembered, and is still felt by the nations of the earth."

Edward Gibbon wrote possibly my favorite historical work, not because it is accurate (it is not) but because it encourages me to write history.