The First Lady and delegate, from Hyde Park to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
The 1989 American invasion of Panama and the civilian casualties the networks did not show.
The forced relocation of Navajo families from Big Mountain, narrated by Martin Sheen.
Ava DuVernay on the loophole in the 13th Amendment and mass incarceration.
A Kentucky coal strike in 1973, filmed from the picket line; Barbara Kopple's Oscar.
Hochschild on the Congo Free State and the ten million who died for rubber.
Lawrence Wright on al-Qaeda and the road to 9/11; the Pulitzer.
From Detroit Red to Mecca, told to Alex Haley in the year before his assassination.
Mandela's autobiography from the Transkei to Robben Island to the presidency.
John Lewis's civil rights years, from Nashville lunch counters to Selma, in three books.
Anne Applebaum's Pulitzer history of the Soviet camps from the archives.
Europe from 1945 to 2005 in one volume; Tony Judt's masterpiece.
Edward Said on how the West invented the East to rule it.
The fall of the Iranian monarchy in 1979 through photographs and fragments; Kapuscinski.
American history from the losers' side, Columbus to Clinton; Zinn's two million copies.
Haile Selassie's court told by its servants; Kapuscinski on power anywhere.
Solzhenitsyn's literary investigation of the camps from 227 witnesses; the abridged edition is enough.
Russians remember the end of the Soviet Union and the 1990s; Alexievich's chorus.
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