These are some of the most insightful history books to add to your reading list. "Hands up all who know when Tsarist Russia ...

In a newly translated biography, Maurizio Serra pierces the self-mythologizing of the acclaimed writer Curzio Malaparte, who ...

For Little Rock author Phyllis Hodges, reminding Arkansas children that "everybody has a story to tell" has made a yearslong journey to get her three "living history" books in more than 60 school ...

The author is not the first scholar to tackle the history of America—as in the American continent, not just the United States ...

While many learned about the American Revolution as beginning in the Northeast, some may not know Florida's role in the ...

In George McCalman’s Dazzling New Book, Black History Is Everyone’s History The artist’s portraits of Black luminaries are “as individual as the people” they depict.

These novels blend the substantiated with the surreal, offering new ways to understand the past through magic, monsters and ...

The granddaughter of the last Shah of Iran and a Jewish American businessman tied the knot over the weekend in a union that’s being hailed as a modern-day Purim story. Princess Iman Pahlavi celebrated ...

English translations of New Outline of General History of China and A Concise History of Chinese Civilization were launched at the 31st Beijing International Book Fair on Wednesday.

Superintendent Tom Horne has threatened to sic the Trump administration on Scottsdale schools for teaching a 'leftist' view of history. But is it?

So this book literally starts at the dawn of modern humanity, 233,000 years ago. There's tons of innovation around astronomy, medicine, and architecture that wasn’t in the history books.

JAKARTA--The Indonesian government's plan to release new history books has sparked concerns that some of the country's darkest chapters could be recast to show President Prabowo Subianto and late ...