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These are some of the most insightful history books to add to your reading list. "Hands up all who know when Tsarist Russia ...
Trace the centuries-long struggle of the Reconquista, where Christian kingdoms slowly reclaimed the Iberian Peninsula from ...
In a newly translated biography, Maurizio Serra pierces the self-mythologizing of the acclaimed writer Curzio Malaparte, who ...
The author is not the first scholar to tackle the history of America—as in the American continent, not just the United States ...
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 ...
While many learned about the American Revolution as beginning in the Northeast, some may not know Florida's role in the nation's founding.
As the title suggests, that’s partially the point. “There are still not a lot of books that are accessible about Black history,” McCalman tells me over Zoom.
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 ...
Superintendent Tom Horne, with the hard right nipping at his heels, says Scottsdale's new high school history book is too 'woke.' Then he admits he hasn't read it.
English translations of New Outline of General History of Chinaand A Concise History of Chinese Civilizationare launched at the 31st Beijing International Book Fair on Wednesday.[Photo provided to ...
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.