Books like The secret histories by John S. Friedman

In an elite New England college, a charismatic classics professor lures a group of eccentric students into obsessive study, leading them from intellectual curiosity to corruption, betrayal, and ultimately murder.

Jill Lepore’s sweeping single‑volume history charts how the United States has wrestled with the ideals of equality, natural rights, and sovereignty from 1492 to today, weaving together politics, law, journalism and technology.

A. Ralph Epperson explores the symbolism of the Great Seal, translating the Latin phrase Annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum and arguing that the reverse side reveals a hidden agenda guiding American destiny.

Emma Davis, a rising New York artist, returns to the reopened Camp Nightingale as a painting instructor to uncover the truth behind her friends' disappearance, confronting hidden secrets and dangerous threats that may exact a deadly cost for closure.

Historian Fergusson provides a revolutionary reinterpretation of the modern era that resolves its central paradox: why unprecedented progress coincided with unprecedented violence, and why the seeming triumph of the West bore the seeds of its undoing. From the conflicts that presaged the First World War to the aftershocks of the Cold War, the twentieth century was by far the bloodiest in all of human history. How can we explain the astonishing scale and intensity of its violence when, thanks to the advances of science and economics, most people were better off than ever before? Wherever one looked, the world in 1900 offered the happy prospect of ever-greater interconnection. Why, then, did global progress descend into internecine war and genocide? Drawing on a pioneering combination of history, economics, and evolutionary theory, Ferguson examines what he calls the age of hatred and sets out to explain what went wrong with modernity. --From publisher description.

An accessible guide that explores historic and contemporary conspiracy theories and secret societies, helping readers distinguish fact from fiction.

A moving portrait of a London ladies' hostel in the aftermath of World War II, where young women balance everyday life and romance while grappling with hidden wartime trauma.

George Friedman reveals the hidden forces shaping U.S. foreign policy and the global war on terror, offering a detailed look at America’s covert operations, strategic alliances, and decision-making since 9/11.

Nicholas Redfern investigates fifty‑plus true events in history that have been concealed or ignored, from ancient times to the modern era, uncovering the secrets of human society and its encounters with the unknown.