The events of times past have contributed greatly to the present, and luckily for us, these events have been made available to us through the pages of different historical books. There’s a booklist with the top 10 world history textbooks in our blog and one about American history textbooks; now let’s dive deeper into different historical periods and list great books to learn more about each one of them. If you’re a student or pure enthusiast of literature and history, we’ve got some great lineups for you.

Read on as we travel back in time through the best classics from each historical period. In this list, we look at different history books, one era at a time.