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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).