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How did society arrive at where it stands today? To learn about the politicians, scientists, innovators, leaders and rulers whose actions shaped the present, peruse these summaries.

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South to America

A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
Imani Perry
Ecco, 2022
8 Article

Winning Is Everything

Inside Nike’s Olympic comeback plan
Mark Wilson
Fast Company, 2024
Book

The Wager

A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann
Doubleday, 2023
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Pathogenesis

A History of the World in Eight Plagues
Jonathan Kennedy
Crown, 2023
Book

The Rediscovery of America

Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
Ned Blackhawk
Yale UP, 2023
9 Book

Burning the Books

A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge
Richard Ovenden
Belknap Press, 2020
Book

Fight Like Hell

The Untold History of American Labor
Kim Kelly
One Signal Publishers, 2022
9 Book

The BBC

A People's History
David Hendy
Profile Books, 2022
9 Book

For Profit

A History of Corporations
William Magnuson
Basic Books, 2022
9 Book

Hangry

A Startup Journey
Mike Evans
Legacy Lit, 2022
8 Book

Tokens

The Future of Money in the Age of the Platform
Rachel O'Dwyer
Verso Books, 2023