Technology, for better or worse, provides us with ways to learn history for laymen. Many times these books are a simple anecdote and other times, a chronological journey through the evolution of the object in question.
For those who travel, longer podcasts and combining sound and landscape are recommended. Some of the ones we recommend are Conspiracy Theories, Princesses and Queens, History of Lucas Botta, Pandora's Box, National Geographic itself and historian JC Vergara's Unusual Stories and the Blog.