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The Ten Best History Books of 2025

Our favorite titles of the year resurrect overlooked histories and examine how the United States ended up where it is today ...
The staff of The New York Times Book Review choose the year’s top fiction and nonfiction. The envelope, please: After a full year spent reading hundreds of books and meeting regularly to bicker — er, ...
Understanding the past "gives us perspective" on current events, said GQ. "And right now, we sorely need perspective." With "war raging in Europe" and Donald Trump causing chaos across the pond, it's ...
Carrillo wasn't the only librarian eager to check this book out. Matthew Galloway, the Collection Development Librarian and ...
Everyone should study history, and here are 20 books I think everyone should read. They are expressly not the “best” history books ever written: no one can possibly have read the tens of thousands in ...
Jonathan Eig's "King: A Life," a biography of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., was recognized as one of the best books of 2023. Biographies offer a chance to explore the decision-making and ...
From queer Georgians to Russian sleeper agents, authors have this year thoroughly transformed our understanding of the past ...
For many, 2023 was a year of momentous change and loss, marked by events that will be chronicled in history books for generations to come. Longstanding tensions in the Middle East erupted when Hamas ...