1. Easily Led
   A History of Propaganda
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1999
   From Ancient Sumer to modern Poland, Thomson traces the use of propaganda and its influence on human events.
2. How The Gods Were Made
   A Study in Historical Materialism
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1929
   
3. The Invention of the Jewish People
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2009
   Sand argues that most contemporary Jews do not originate from the ancient Land of Israel, that they never existed as a "nation-race" with a common origin. Just as most contemporary Christians and Muslims are the progeny of converted people, not of the first Christians and Muslims, Judaism was originally, like its two cousins, a converting religion. Many of the present day world Jewish population are descendants of European, Russian and African groups. The original Jews living in Israel, contrary to the accepted history, were not exiled following the Bar Kokhba revolt. Sand argues that most of the Jews were not exiled by the Romans, and were permitted to remain in the country. He puts the number of those exiled at tens of thousands at most. Many Jews converted to Islam following the Arab conquest, and were assimilated among the conquerors. He concludes that the progenitors of the Palestinian Arabs were Jews.
4. Nonviolence
   Twenty-five Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2006
   
5. The Penguin Atlas of World History - Vol. 1: From the Beginning to the Eve of the French Revolution
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1974
   
6. The Penguin Atlas of World History - Vol. 2: From the French Revolution to the Present
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1978
   
7. A People's History of the World
   From the Stone Age to the New Millennium
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1999
   Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative or ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals.
8. Quest for the Historical Jesus Begins Anew
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2008
   Scholars gathered this past weekend for the inaugural meeting of The Jesus Project in a renewed quest for the historical Jesus. The project is an effort by historians, biblical scholars, and theologians.
   

Experts on Religious History in the Sources Directory

1. Asian Civilisations Museum
2. The British Library
3. The Hermitage