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History Book Summaries

Every History summary on Sumizeit, distilled into a 10-15 minute read, listen, or watch — with quizzes and exercises to help the ideas stick.

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Evicted book summary
Evicted

By Matthew Desmond

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer book summary
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

By Siddhartha Mukherjee

Guns, Germs, and Steel book summary
Guns, Germs, and Steel

By Jared Diamond

Born in Blackness book summary
Born in Blackness

By Howard W. French

The Demon of Unrest book summary
The Demon of Unrest

By Erik Larson

The Small and the Mighty book summary
The Small and the Mighty

By Sharon McMahon

The 1619 Project book summary
The 1619 Project

By Nikole Hannah-Jones

How the Word Is Passed book summary
How the Word Is Passed

By Clint Smith

Killers of the Flower Moon book summary
Killers of the Flower Moon

By David Grann

The Boys in the Boat book summary
The Boys in the Boat

By Daniel James Brown

Black Like Me book summary
Black Like Me

By John Howard Griffin

The Spy and the Traitor book summary
The Spy and the Traitor

By Ben Macintyre

When the Clock Broke book summary
When the Clock Broke

By John Ganz

The Dawn of Everything book summary
The Dawn of Everything

By David Graeber

Black AF History book summary
Black AF History

By Michael Harriot

The Wager book summary
The Wager

By David Grann

The Federalist Papers book summary
The Federalist Papers

By Alexander Hamilton

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World book summary
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

By Jack Weatherford

A People’s History of the United States book summary
A People’s History of the United States

By Howard Zinn

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks book summary
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

By Rebecca Skloot

1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--and How It Shattered a Nation book summary
1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--and How It Shattered a Nation

By Andrew Ross Sorkin

The Diary of a Young Girl book summary
The Diary of a Young Girl

By Anne Frank

A Short History of Nearly Everything book summary
A Short History of Nearly Everything

By Bill Bryson

American Prometheus book summary
American Prometheus

By Kai Bird & Martin J Sherwin

Chip War book summary
Chip War

By Chris Miller

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