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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 ...
CRF Publishing LLC's newly released book series connects pivotal American historical events to today's political discourse.
Wendy L. Wall, professor of 20th-century American history at Binghamton University The unprecedented nature of this attack, combined with the widespread sense that it marks a historical turning point, ...
And for Spark obsessives, Dan Gunn’s edition of The Letters of Muriel Spark 1944-1963 (Virago, £35) is another must-read. the ...
Kathleen DuVal and Gish Jen explore how America’s forgotten histories — national and personal — still shape us.
The Dover Area School Board unanimously approved a new history textbook despite some board members having reservations and questions about the text containing biases. The book, "American History: ...
Truth means describing reality. It is a statement that tells what things actually are. While technically, the understanding is that truth describes reality, many people do not know this. Many ...