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If you loved History by John Higham, this shelf of 24 books shares the same pull — rooted in Historiography, Renaissance, Europe, and United States.

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Read-alikes chosen for how well they continue the mood, themes, and voice of History.

The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy — Jacob. Burckhardt

The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy — Jacob. Burckhardt

Jacob Burckhardt

Themes: Historiography • Renaissance • Europe

Women in the French Enlightenment From Femme Savante to Mother of the Family — Anna Maria Marchini

Women in the French Enlightenment From Femme Savante to Mother of the Family

Anna Maria Marchini

Themes: Historiography • Renaissance • Europe

Knowledge Building in Early Modern English Music — Katie Bank

Knowledge Building in Early Modern English Music

Themes: Historiography • Renaissance • Europe

Essays on David Hume, Medical Men and the Scottish Enlightenment ‘Industry, Knowledge and Humanity’ — Roger L. Emerson

Essays on David Hume, Medical Men and the Scottish Enlightenment ‘Industry, Knowledge and Humanity&#8217

Roger L. Emerson

Themes: Historiography • Renaissance • Europe

Swift and History — Ashley Marshall

Swift and History

Ashley Marshall

Themes: Historiography • Renaissance • Europe

The ‘Commentaries’ of Pope Pius II (1458-1464) and the Crisis of the Fifteenth-Century Papacy — Emily OBrien

The ‘Commentaries’ of Pope Pius II (1458-1464) and the Crisis of the Fifteenth-Century Papacy

Themes: Historiography • Renaissance • Europe

History and Historical Research — C. G. Crump

History and Historical Research

Themes: Historiography • Renaissance • Europe

The Social Circulation of the Past English Historical Culture, 1500-1730 — Daniel R. Woolf

The Social Circulation of the Past English Historical Culture, 1500-1730

Daniel R. Woolf

Themes: Historiography • Renaissance • Europe

The Night Battles Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries — Carlo Ginzburg

The Night Battles Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Themes: Historiography • Renaissance • Europe

Enlightened Nightscapes Critical Essays on the Long Eighteenth-century Night — Pamela F. Phillips

Enlightened Nightscapes Critical Essays on the Long Eighteenth-century Night

Pamela F. Phillips

Themes: Historiography • Renaissance • Europe

Bad Christians, New Spains Muslims, Catholics, and Native Americans in a Mediterratlantic World — Byron Ellsworth Hamann

Bad Christians, New Spains Muslims, Catholics, and Native Americans in a Mediterratlantic World

Byron Ellsworth Hamann

Themes: Historiography • Renaissance • Europe

Molyneux’s Problem Three Centuries of Discussion on the Perception of Forms — Marjolein Degenaar

Molyneux’s Problem Three Centuries of Discussion on the Perception of Forms

Marjolein Degenaar

Themes: Historiography • Renaissance

The New Science and Jesuit Science — M. Feingold

The New Science and Jesuit Science

Themes: Historiography • Renaissance

Progressive Pioneer Alexander James Inglis (1879-1924) and American Secondary Education — William G. Wraga

Progressive Pioneer Alexander James Inglis (1879-1924) and American Secondary Education

William G. Wraga

Themes: Historiography • Europe • United States

Columbus and the Crisis of the West — Robert Royal

Columbus and the Crisis of the West

Themes: Historiography • Europe • United States

Armies of Early Colonial North America 1607-1713 History, Organization and Uniforms — Gabriele Esposito

Armies of Early Colonial North America 1607-1713 History, Organization and Uniforms

Gabriele Esposito

Themes: Renaissance • Europe • United States

White Servitude in Colonial America An economic analysis — David W. Galenson

White Servitude in Colonial America An economic analysis

David W. Galenson

Themes: Renaissance • Europe • United States

Transgressing the Bounds Subversive Enterprises Among the Puritan Elite in Massachusetts, 1630-1692 — Louise A. Breen

Transgressing the Bounds Subversive Enterprises Among the Puritan Elite in Massachusetts, 1630-1692

Louise A. Breen

Themes: Renaissance • Europe • United States

The Faiths of the Founding Fathers — David L. Holmes

The Faiths of the Founding Fathers

David L. Holmes

Themes: Renaissance • Europe • United States

Taming Democracy “the People,” the Founders, and the Troubled Ending of the American Revolution — Terry Bouton

Taming Democracy “the People,” the Founders, and the Troubled Ending of the American Revolution

Themes: Renaissance • Europe • United States

The Atlantic in Global History, 1500-2000 — Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra

The Atlantic in Global History, 1500-2000

Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra

Themes: Renaissance • Europe • United States

Peaceable Kingdom Lost The Paxton Boys and the Destruction of William Penn’s Holy Experiment — Kevin Kenny

Peaceable Kingdom Lost The Paxton Boys and the Destruction of William Penn’s Holy Experiment

Themes: Renaissance • Europe • United States

Heroes of the Acadian Resistance The Story of Joseph Beausoleil Broussard and Pierre II Surette 1702-1765 — Dianne Marshall

Heroes of the Acadian Resistance The Story of Joseph Beausoleil Broussard and Pierre II Surette 1702-1765

Dianne Marshall

Themes: Renaissance • Europe • United States

Indian Peter The Extraordinary Life and Adventures of Peter Williamson — Douglas Skelton

Indian Peter The Extraordinary Life and Adventures of Peter Williamson

Douglas Skelton

Themes: Renaissance • Europe • United States

This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with History by John Higham. Connected by Historiography, Renaissance, Europe. Authors featured include Jacob Burckhardt, Anna Maria Marchini, Katie Bank, Roger L. Emerson, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.

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