Hourly History

At Hourly History, we publish concise, engaging, and easy-to-read history books—each designed to be read in one hour or less.

Every Friday, we release a brand-new history eBook for free.
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Ebooks

First Battle of Bull Run: A History from Beginning to End

Rembrandt: A Life from Beginning to End

Celtic Mythology: A Concise Guide to the Gods, Sagas and Beliefs

Titanic: The Story of the Unsinkable Ship

Mayflower: A History from Beginning to End

The Black Death: A History from Beginning to End

The Renaissance: A History from Beginning to End

Vikings: A Concise History of the Vikings

Age of Enlightenment: A History from Beginning to End

John Wycliffe: A Life from Beginning to End

Malayan Campaign: A History from Beginning to End

Easter Rising: A History from Beginning to End

J. R. R. Tolkien: A Life from Beginning to End

Ada Lovelace: A Life from Beginning to End

Mary Wollstonecraft: A Life from Beginning to End

The Mexican Revolution: A History from Beginning to End

Pirates: The Golden Age of Piracy

Red Cloud's War: A History from Beginning to End

Battle of the Somme: A History from Beginning to End

Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A Life from Beginning to End

Benedict Arnold: A Life from Beginning to End

Battle of New Orleans: A History from Beginning to End

Mozart: A Life from Beginning to End

German Revolution: A History from Beginning to End

Jacqueline Kennedy: A Life from Beginning to End

Vlad the Impaler: A Life from Beginning to End

Alfred Hitchcock: A Life from Beginning to End

The Olmecs: A History from Beginning to End

Caligula: A Life from Beginning to End

Spanish American War: A History from Beginning to End

Jackson Pollock: A Life from Beginning to End

Gallipoli Campaign: A History from Beginning to End

North Sea Empire: A History from Beginning to End

Zapotec Civilization: A History from Beginning to End

Battle of Hastings: A History from Beginning to End

Battle of Britain: A History from Beginning to End

Parthian Empire: A History from Beginning to End

Great Northern War: A History from Beginning to End

Stonewall Jackson: A Life from Beginning to End

Swedish Empire: A History from Beginning to End

Battle of Jutland: A History from Beginning to End

Punic Wars: A History from Beginning to End

Cyrus the Great: A Life from Beginning to End

James Baldwin: A Life from Beginning to End

Kaiser Wilhelm II: A Life from Beginning to End

Mahdist War: A History from Beginning to End

King Louis XIV: A Life from Beginning to End

Mitanni Empire: A History from Beginning to End

John Jay: A Life from Beginning to End

Toltec Civilization: A History from Beginning to End

Confucius: A Life from Beginning to End

James Cook: A Life from Beginning to End

Voltaire: A Life from Beginning to End

Claudius: A Life from Beginning to End

Oliver Cromwell: A Life from Beginning to End

Western Han Dynasty: A History from Beginning to End

Antebellum Era: A History from Beginning to End

Mongol Empire: A History from Beginning to End

First Indochina War: A History from Beginning to End

Julius Caesar: A Life from Beginning to End

Chinese Civil War: A History from Beginning to End

Indus Valley Civilization: A History from Beginning to End

War of the Spanish Succession: A History from Beginning to End

The Great Pyramid of Giza: A History from Beginning to Present

Eastern Han Dynasty: A History from Beginning to End

Nero: A Life from Beginning to End

Mau Mau Rebellion: A History from Beginning to End

Kingdom of Dahomey: A History from Beginning to End

Boxer Rebellion: A History from Beginning to End

Marcus Aurelius: A Life from Beginning to End

Walt Whitman: A Life from Beginning to End

Battle of Tarawa: A History from Beginning to End

Peter the Great: A Life from Beginning to End

Mata Hari: A Life from Beginning to End

Glorious Revolution: A History from Beginning to End

Charlie Chaplin: A Life from Beginning to End

Pontiac's War: A History from Beginning to End

Alan Watts: A Life from Beginning to End

Harlem Renaissance: A History from Beginning to End

Alfred Nobel: A Life from Beginning to End

Taiping Rebellion: A History from Beginning to End

Russian Revolution: A History from Beginning to End

The Space Race: A History from Beginning to End

Sasanian Empire: A History from Beginning to End

Friedrich Nietzsche: A Life from Beginning to End

Mao Zedong: A Life from Beginning to End

Saint Patrick: A Life from Beginning to End

World War II Dunkirk: A History from Beginning to End

Battle of the Atlantic: A History from Beginning to End

Assyrian Empire: A History from Beginning to End

Hannibal Barca: A Life from Beginning to End

Russian Civil War: A History from Beginning to End

World War II Leningrad: A History from Beginning to End

Christopher Columbus: A Life from Beginning to End

Leon Trotsky: A Life from Beginning to End

The Cuban Missile Crisis: A History from Beginning to End

Iraq War: A History from Beginning to End

Cuban Revolution: A History from Beginning to End

King Philip's War: A History from Beginning to End

Augustus Caesar: A Life from Beginning to End

Stephen Hawking: A Life from Beginning to End

Michael Faraday: A Life from Beginning to End

Battle of Verdun: A History from Beginning to End

Simón Bolívar: A Life from Beginning to End

Battle of Bunker Hill: A History from Beginning to End

Battle of Shiloh: A History from Beginning to End

Virginia Woolf: A Life from Beginning to End

Charles II: A Life from Beginning to End

Henry Ford: A Life from Beginning to End

Charles V: A Life from Beginning to End

Fidel Castro: A Life from Beginning to End

Tupac Shakur: A Life from Beginning to End

Battles of Saratoga: A History from Beginning to End

Rosa Parks: A Life from Beginning to End

Charles Darwin: A Life from Beginning to End

Dean Martin: A Life from Beginning to End

Frédéric Chopin: A Life from Beginning to End

John Wilkes Booth: A Life from Beginning to End

Bob Hope: A Life from Beginning to End

Battle of Iwo Jima - World War II: A History from Beginning to End

Rosalind Franklin: A Life from Beginning to End

Pablo Escobar: A Life from Beginning to End

Falklands War: A History from Beginning to End

James Clerk Maxwell: A Life from Beginning to End

Giotto di Bondone: A Life from Beginning to End

Cristero War: A History from Beginning to End

H. H. Holmes: The Life of the American Ripper

Battle of Chickamauga: A History from Beginning to End

Battle of Kursk: A History from Beginning to End

Ernest Shackleton: A Life from Beginning to End

Civil Rights Movement: A History from Beginning to End

Little Richard: A Life from Beginning to End

Battle of Okinawa - World War II: A History from Beginning to End

James Joyce: A Life from Beginning to End

Chechen Wars: A History from Beginning to End

James Dean: A Life from Beginning to End

Mahatma Gandhi: A Life from Beginning to End

Marilyn Monroe: A Life from Beginning to End

Katharine Hepburn: A Life from Beginning to End

Tallulah Bankhead: A Life from Beginning to End

Ivan the Terrible: A Life from Beginning to End

Ray Charles: A Life from Beginning to End

Nancy Wake: A Life from Beginning to End

Teresa of Avila: A Life from Beginning to End

Bruce Lee: A Life from Beginning to End

Vladimir Lenin: A Life from Beginning to End

Joan Crawford: A Life from Beginning to End

Jim Morrison: A Life from Beginning to End

Brian Epstein: A Life from Beginning to End

Bob Marley: A Life from Beginning to End

Brian Boru: A Life from Beginning to End

Buddy Holly: A Life from Beginning to End

Pancho Villa: A Life from Beginning to End

Hedy Lamarr: A Life from Beginning to End

Heath Ledger: A Life from Beginning to End

James Brown: A Life from Beginning to End

Subhas Chandra Bose: A Life from Beginning to End

Taj Mahal: A History from Beginning to End

Nathaniel Hawthorne: A Life from Beginning to End

Andy Warhol: A Life from Beginning to End

George Stephenson: A Life from Beginning to End

Finnish Civil War: A History from Beginning to End

Italian Wars: A History from Beginning to End

Pearl Harbor: A History from Beginning to End

Haile Selassie: A Life from Beginning to End

The Progressive Era: A History from Beginning to End

Isambard Kingdom Brunel: A Life from Beginning to End

Mark Twain: A Life from Beginning to End

King Philip II: A Life from Beginning to End

Neil Armstrong: A Life from Beginning to End

William Shakespeare: A Life from Beginning to End

Marlon Brando: A Life from Beginning to End

George Orwell: A Life from Beginning to End

Sojourner Truth: A Life from Beginning to End

Agatha Christie: A Life from Beginning to End

Frederick Douglass: A Life from Beginning to End

F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Life from Beginning to End

Nostradamus: A Life from Beginning to End

Joseph Bazalgette: A Life from Beginning to End

Muhammad Ali: A Life from Beginning to End

Louisa May Alcott: A Life from Beginning to End

Mary Baker Eddy: A Life from Beginning to End

Bernard Montgomery: A Life from Beginning to End

Hernan Cortes: A Life from Beginning to End

Spencer Tracy: A Life from Beginning to End

Anais Nin: A Life from Beginning to End

George Eliot: A Life from Beginning to End

King Arthur: A Life from Beginning to End

Bram Stoker: A Life from Beginning to End

Jane Austen: A Life from Beginning to End

Thomas Paine: A Life from Beginning to End

Tsar Nicholas II: A Life from Beginning to End

Hudson Taylor: A Life from Beginning to End

Ingrid Bergman: A Life from Beginning to End

Shirley Chisholm: A Life from Beginning to End

Richard Pryor: A Life from Beginning to End

Giacomo Casanova: A Life from Beginning to End

Andrew Carnegie: A Life from Beginning to End

Marquis de Lafayette: A Life from Beginning to End

Kofi Annan: A Life from Beginning to End