Nomical History March: Ides, Inventions, and the Days That Wouldn't Behave (Monthly History)

Beware the Ides of March -- but don't miss the rest. What happened in March that rewrote the rules?

March is where empires crumble, revolutions ignite, and women finally get their due. It's history's most rebellious month -- and every day has a story worth knowing.

Nomical History: March delivers one powerful historical event per day, told with cinematic prose, sharp life lessons, and reflections that connect ancient drama to modern life.

Inside this history book, you'll discover:

• The Ides of March -- why Caesar's assassination was both inevitable and shocking
• How Women's History Month was born from a single March strike in 1857
• The spring equinox rituals that shaped every major religion on Earth
• Alexander Graham Bell's March phone call that made silence obsolete
• The Selma-to-Montgomery march -- blood on a bridge that changed voting rights forever
• How Napoleon's March return from exile terrified all of Europe in 20 days

Rated 4.8-5.0 stars with 160+ reviews across the series -- fans say "it reads like a thriller" and "I learn something incredible every single day."

Perfect for: history enthusiasts, Women's History Month readers, fans of historical essays, students, trivia lovers, and anyone who craves daily history that surprises.

Part of the 12-book Nomical History series. March in and discover why every month holds a story from the past.

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Joel Thomas writes history the way it actually happened-messy, ridiculous, consequential, and rarely as dignified as the textbooks suggest. He has spent three decades working inside federal government and commercial industry, watching power operate at close range-how it concentrates, how it negotiates, how it fails, and how it survives outcomes it was never supposed to survive. He has spent the same three decades studying its longer history. Power: How Influence, Authority, and Control Shaped Civilizations is the book those two lifetimes produced.Power is a structural analysis of how influence, authority, and control move through empires, institutions, economies, and movements-written with the conviction that understanding how power works matters more than judging its morality, and that the most useful thing a book can offer is analytical tools sharp enough to cut through the stories systems tell about themselves. It anchors a forthcoming thematic series examining the load-bearing concepts of civilization: Control, Authority, Legitimacy, Risk, Resistance, Information, Trust, Wealth, Influence, and Fear. The method is structural rather than moral, comparative rather than chronological, and built on the premise that the same mechanics show up in a Roman succession crisis, a corporate board fight, and a viral news cycle, if you know where to look.He is also the creator of the Nomical History series, built on a word he coined by blending "notable" and "comical," because history has always been both. The project began with daily volumes examining what the world crammed into single calendar dates-emperors, disasters, sitcoms, treaties, and the occasional spectacular failure, all sharing the same square on the calendar. It expanded into a twelve-volume monthly collection covering hundreds of events across every chapter of recorded history, each entry stripped of its polished mythology and examined for the real machinery underneath: courage, incompetence, luck, stubbornness, and usually some combination of all four. The series spans wars and battles, governance and power, science and technology, culture and society, and the pivotal moments that quietly reset the world while everyone was looking elsewhere.Thomas publishes under the Nomical Books imprint, where his work pairs rigorous research with controlled irreverence-focused on the moments where systems break, authority fractures, and outcomes refuse to behave as intended. He is a husband and father whose family has learned to tolerate dinner conversations that begin with "So, in 1066..." and rarely end quickly. He writes between archives, deadlines, and unfinished footnotes.