I can't help but feel that a lot of our newer players are missing out on a great deal of amazing background. This makes me sad.
Last night I began to think about how neat it would be to have a book that just contained background, a compendium of sixth world history detailing all of the things that any other history book would. I don't know about the rest of you but I'd crap in my hat and wear it for a book like that.
Tell me you wouldn't love to look at maps detailing how the North American and European borders have shifted about over the last 70 years, that alone would be worth the price of admission! Chapters detailing important wars, political events, breakthroughs in science and medicine! I want to feel like I'm holding a real history book, and I promise that when I have children I will teach them from it while telling them that the books at school are filled with corporate lies.
Also, it should have plenty of annotation from people who know what "really" happened.