Our favorite titles of the year resurrect overlooked histories and examine how the United States ended up where it is today ...

The Athenian patrician Thucydides began writing the history of his city’s conflict with Sparta even as the war was beginning.

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A fascinating history of California wine, a beginner’s handbook, “A Cynic’s Guide” and visits to natural producers in France and England, with recipes ...

When I began writing of Oley Valley’s rich history last year for a volume picking up where Phil Pendleton left off in his 1994 publication, I gathered as much literature as possible, and began to read ...

On the occasion of the publication of Is Art History?, a definitive volume of writings by one of the most renowned art historians of the past half century Svetlana Alpers, BFA Visual & Critical ...

NPR's Books We Love returns with about 380 titles handpicked by NPR staff and critics. Reporter Andrew Limbong shares this year's nonfiction favorites with Michel Martin.

A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and politics. ONE of the most distinguished of our recent predecessors in the walks of history, the late Bishop of London, Mandell Creighton, has said with much ...

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 ...

“The increase in the velocity of history means, among other things, that the ‘present’ becomes the ‘past’ more swiftly than ever before.” There is nothing new about man’s recording the events of his ...