Then, in last year’s A History of Britain in Ten Enemies, he transformed our past into a gruesome, hilarious, and wildly entertaining book for adults ... to me how the best of the best ...

Can we mine the past for clues that explain the present? That’s the central theme of many history books in 2018, as writers and historians, academic and popular alike, attempt to uncover and ...

Books about history allow us a window into the past. The best of them offer an opportunity to visit worlds that are no longer here, and understand the people who lived in them. This list of the best ...

Last year, at the American Historical Association’s annual meeting, a presenter in a session on “Buying and Selling History” included a slide listing the best ... books in the past year.

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No longer can academic historians dismiss popular biographies or nonspecialist accounts of the past as low-powered ... great Rutgers professor of history, journalism and media studies David Greenberg ...

Robert Bartlett’s “History in Flames ... the reality that even the best attempts to preserve the past have a baked-in tension between making old books and manuscripts available to people ...