I’m a history geek. In November 2025, after viewing Ken Burns & Co.’s six-episode, 12-hour documentary, The American Revolution, I realized I didn’t know as much as I would like about the violent conflict and events that gave birth to the United States. I kind of chain-smoked books about the Revolutionary War for a few months. As soon as one was done, I used that one to light another. https://open.substack.com/pub/theicarian/p/the-50-books-i-read-after-watching