The 235th Olympiad
Nigel Spivey • The Ancient Olympics: A History (2005).
Shakespeare’s Globe
Peter Ackroyd • Shakespeare: The Biography (2005).
James Shapiro • 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare (2005).
The Birth of Bebop
Stanley Crouch • Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker (2013).
Ira Gitler • Swing to Bop: An Oral History of the Transition in Jazz in the 1940s (1985).
Robin D.G. Kelley • Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original (2010).
The Beatles in Hamburg
Mark Lewisohn • The Beatles: All These Years – Volume 1, Tune In (2013).
The Rumble in the Jungle
Norman Mailer • The Fight (1975).
In Xanadu with Marco Polo
Marco Polo • The Travels (1299).
John Man • Xanadu: Marco Polo and Europe’s Discovery of the East (2009).
Captain Cook’s First Epic Voyage
Peter Aughton • Endeavour: The Story of Captain Cook’s First Great Epic Voyage (2002).
James Cook • The Journals of Captain Cook (1768–1771).
Frank McLynn • Captain Cook: Master of the Seas (2011).
The Eruption of Vesuvius
Mary Beard • Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town (2008).
The Peasants’ Revolt
Judith Barker • 1381: The Year of the Peasants’ Revolt (2014).
Dan Jones • Summer of Blood: The Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 (2010).
First Battle of Bull Run
David Detzer • Donnybrook: The Battle of Bull Run, 1861 (2004).
