Recommendations from our site
“Much broader in scope is a new book called Ancient Africa: A Global History, to 300 CE by Christopher Ehret, a professor at UCLA. Ehret rejects the ‘artificial separation of our human story into something called ‘history’ and something else called ‘prehistory’’ and starts his story in 68,000 BCE. I love this approach and just wish it was taught more in school. As he writes, ‘Barely more than fifty thousand years ago, the primary ancestors of every single human being alive today lived in eastern Africa. World history to that point was African history.'” Read more...
Notable Nonfiction of Fall 2023
Sophie Roell, Journalist
Our most recommended books
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Higher Calling: Road Cycling’s Obsession with the Mountains
by Max Leonard -
Up The Organization
by Robert Townsend -
Desire Discrimination Determination: Black Champions in Cycling
by Marlon Moncrieffe -
Amusing Ourselves to Death
by Neil Postman -
End to End
by Paul Jones -
A Walk in the Woods
by Bill Bryson
