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I haven't been able to rouse more than a passing interest in history-in-general, and have gathered a lot more information from historical fiction and encylo/wiki-pedia articles than in-depth sources, but a couple of more in-depth works I can recommend to increase your overall understanding of the discipline are Montaillou, a detailed survey of daily life in a small, heretical French village in the 1300s, based on the obsessively detailed records of the Inquisition, and Son of the Morningstar, a beautifully written study of General Custer. Both are great books to set on the back of the can, or elsewhere that you'll dive into them whenever you're ready for a bit more, rather than declaring it What I'm Reading and plowing through.
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