What to Read After The Purpose of the Past
Readers who loved The Purpose of the Past by Gordon S. Wood keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Purpose of the Past is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after The Purpose of the Past
Generations of Captivity
Writing History
Telling the truth about history
The Landscape of History
The Historian's Craft
After the fact
The marketplace of revolution
A people's history of the American Revolution
The ideological origins of the American Revolution
On history
The idea of history
Oskar Schindler
The roads to modernity
The unknown American Revolution
Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution
American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson
His Excellency: George Washington
Letters from a Stoic
John Adams
Alexander Hamilton
Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
The Turn of the Screw
Walden
For Whom the Bell Tolls