Sunday Smatterings... Unusual History Books...

Since The Boy will be starting -- gulp -- high school next year, and will be doing the Big History Project, we decided to just have fun with some history this year. Actually, we're focusing mainly on world geography, and reading history just once a week as part of the Afternoon Basket. So I've been gathering unusual/outside-the-box titles to add to the rotation and thought I would share!

Our Current Book: Poop Happened: A History of the World from the Bottom Up... We got a good chunk of this book read early in the summer, but then it was requested by another library patron, so we're working on finishing it.

• Rats, Bulls, & Flying Machines
• An Everyday History of Somewhere, Being the True Story of Indians, Deer, Homesteaders, Potatoes, Loggers, Tress, Fishermen, Salmon, and Other Living Things in Northern California
•  The Story of Salt
• The Story of Money
• The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History
• Oh, Yikes!: History's Grossest, Wackiest Moments
• Sugar Changed the World
• History's Witches
• Written in Bone
• Bugged: How Insects Changed History
• The Amazing Potato
• A Really Short History of Nearly Everything
• Charles Dickens and the Street Children of London
• A Street Through Time and sequels
• Phineas Gage 
• Built to Last 
• Blizzard! and The Great Fire
• Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales 
• Toys! Amazing Stories Behind Great Inventions
• Girls Think of Everything
• Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Chemicals Changed the World 
• Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
• The Story of Sushi
• The Secret Life of Lobsters
• The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
• A History of the World in 6 Glasses
• The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
• At Home: A Short History of Private Life
• A number of titles by Steve Sheinkin

And then of course, there are entire series, such as Horrible Histories, Very Peculiar History, and the You Wouldn't Want to Be... series. I am sure there are plenty more books out there, so if you know of any fun, history-related books, let me know!