As you may know, myself and the ASB have been working together to make sure the history of my book fits in to the history and storyline of the game. As output of this we are working on a nice date by date storyline of what has happened to get us to where we are today. My second book will start talking about the history that dalewj finds as he researches Doctor Butlers private library and finds the full diary of Ivan Rudnev, easily the most learned person about the history of AfterWorld. Sadly Ivan died in 2066 and he has only his diary left for dale to learn from.
Dale is nice enough to have created a page in Wiki for us all the read about the history as he finds it. In fact I suspect you will want to watch the page often as Dale finds new information and has promised Comdiv Bank to publish it before he publishes his next set of Dairies.
Wiki page -
http://wiki.afterworld.ru/wiki/AfterWorld_History The discussion about history will be maintained in this thread and I will try to update you myself as I find Dale's updates to wiki.