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What Life Was Like in the Past
The Antebellum Period by James M. Volo and Dorothy Denneen Volo
Daily life during the Reformation by James M. Anderson
Daily life in Anglo-Saxon England by Sally Crawford
Daily life in the age of Charlemagne by John J. Butt
From dawn to decadence: 500 years of cultural life, 1500 to the present by Jacques Barzun
The Gilded Age by Joel Shrock
The Hellenistic age: a history by Peter Green
Life in a medieval castle by Joseph and Frances Gies
The swerve: how the world became modern by Stephen Greenblatt
A walk in Ancient Rome: a vivid journey back in time by John T. Cullen
A world lit only by fire: the medieval mind and the Renaissance: portrait of an age by William Manchester