Poured Over: Jill Lepore on The Deadline
“Having that store of memories that history can be, if done well, is a really tremendous form of solace.” Jill…
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Our Booksellers’ Favorite History & Current Events Books of the Season
As 2019 winds down, it’s a perfect time to reflect on the past—both the events of a momentous year and…
Facing Frederick Tells the Story of A Monumental American Man
As the mother of a biracial teen whom I raised as a single parent, I know little about her birth…
The Best Non-Fiction of 2017
2017 was a tough year for reality, in the sense that many of us spent the year trying as hard…
The Best History Books, Biographies, and Memoirs of 2017
2017 was a monumental year for the world, and just as great a one for books that look back on…
The Season’s Best History Books Make Great Gifts
Every year it’s the same: we all know the holidays are coming (they’re literally marked on our calendars) and every…
5 Books About People Who Simply…Disappeared
There’s an implied belief that eventually we as a race will figure everything out. We’ll cure the common cold, we’ll…
10 Gifts For Your Favorite Civil War Buff
A century and half ago, the bloody, pitched battles that defined America occurred right here on our own soil. Both…
Fall’s Best New History Books
Fall is a time of change, of hunkering down and preparing for the storms to come. It’s also a perfect time…
6 Reasons Bill O’Reilly’s Killing Series is a Must-Read Addition to the History Shelves
In Killing the Rising Sun, the sixth book in his best-selling history series, Bill O’Reilly once again brings a fresh…
September’s Best History Books
We never stop making history; in just the first eight months of this year, enough has happened to inspire several new books. That isn’t…
7 Astonishing Fact-Filled Books that Will Make You the Toast of Your Next Party
Trivia is a superpower. Shortly after attaining sentience, humans instinctively begin collecting interesting facts in order to astonish and amaze…
Colson Whitehead Takes The Underground Railroad From Metaphor to Devastating Reality
In the midst of the never-ending election, America focused on either accepting or rejecting the notion that the country needs to…
Love Daenerys? Here are 5 Books About Actual Badass Women Who Ruled the World
For a show that spent much of its first few seasons focused on a bevy of male kings (and wannabe…
Read Ron Chernow’s Alexander Hamilton, the Inspiration Behind the Broadway Juggernaut
In 2007, Broadway star Lin-Manuel Miranda picked up a copy of Alexander Hamilton, by Ron Chernow, in an airport bookstore. He…
7 Other Overlooked Historical Figures who Deserve the Hamilton Treatment
The country is gripped with Hamilton fever, and the only cure is scoring tickets to the hottest show on Broadway. Even if you don’t…
10 Must-Read Biographies of Black Americans
Black History Month is an ideal moment to read biographies of some of the most influential and important—yet often overlooked—black Americans, men…