From a history of college sports and a handbook on campus free speech to an analysis of standardized tests, 2024 saw an ...
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The Ten Best History Books of 2024
Our favorite titles of the year resurrect forgotten histories and examine how the United States ended up where it is today ...
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The Ten Best Books About Food of 2024
Travel to the American South, Vietnam and beyond with this year’s best cookbooks, memoirs and historic deep dives ...
Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review.
“Everyone Who is Gone is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis” by Jonathan Blitzer (Penguin, ...
Author Barbara Taylor Bradford, best known for her debut novel "A Woman of Substance," has died at age 91. Her books often ...
History Professor and Cundill History Prize winner Kathleen DuVal holds her book "Native Nations" on Nov. 22, 2024. DuVal's ...
Authors discuss why equal opportunity and pay equity are so difficult to achieve, and what can be done about it.
Hoare’s book covers Serbia from the wars of liberation against Ottoman rule to the Nazi invasion of Yugoslavia in 1941. It is ...
We know novels have the power to take us to different places and time periods. And with biographical historical fiction books ...
How Economics Explains the World. By Andrew Leigh. Mariner Books; 240 pages; $26. Published in Britain as “The Shortest ...
Seasons of Want and Plenty” is set in the 1860s, the decade during which Alaska slipped away from the Russian Empire, and ...