Don't Know Much About History, 30th Anniversary Edition
Everything You Need to Know About American History but Never Learned

Currently rereading, actually. I taught advanced US History I from this book, nearly twenty years ago. Davis has this new addition and my old one got "loaned out", so I bought new to find out what had been added. OK, book read. Just as entertaining, witty, and iconoclastic as the original edition. I......more

The real problem with “Don’t Know Much About History” is that it prescribes to the Modern School of History, namely: anything white males did in the last 3,000 years is criminal, all of white men’s successes are on the backs of other people, and white men are very lucky. This is not to say DKMAH is......more

A shallow popular history of the United States. I suppose one could learn something is one is wholly ignorant of the subject, but the book is so shallow, that anyone with actual knowledge won't get much of anything.......more

Good overview of American history. The more I read about history, especially American history, the more appalled and the more hopeful I become. Appalled, because humanity keeps making the same mistakes fueled by greed, apathy, and ignorance. Hopeful, because eventually a movement starts that achieve......more

Every American should be lashed to a chair and forced to read this book. That's the sort of thought that pops into my head every now and then when I get in touch with my inner-despotic dictator. A benevolent despot, I hasten to add, because it truly would do all my fellow citizens a world of good. A......more