well its hard to say you would need to pick more of a specific topic on American history to decide which one is better. because there are many good books like "the jungle" by Upton Sinclair. it...
Excluding American history, here are a few, worthwhile European history books: History of the Modern World by R.R. Palmer, J. Colton, and L. KramerAn Intellectual History of Modern Europe by...
Women's literature is so important because for a long time there was none and then it was the women who spent the most time reading. Illiteracy was not uncommon among women until the late 1700's or...