From a history of college sports and a handbook on campus free speech to an analysis of standardized tests, 2024 saw an ...

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

The first Congress began in 1789, and truth be told, it wasn’t really the first. The Confederation Congress met from 1781 ...

Travel to the American South, Vietnam and beyond with this year’s best cookbooks, memoirs and historic deep dives ...

“Everyone Who is Gone is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis” by Jonathan Blitzer (Penguin, ...

Hoare’s book covers Serbia from the wars of liberation against Ottoman rule to the Nazi invasion of Yugoslavia in 1941. It is ...

How Economics Explains the World. By Andrew Leigh. Mariner Books; 240 pages; $26. Published in Britain as “The Shortest ...

Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review.

We know novels have the power to take us to different places and time periods. And with biographical historical fiction books ...

The best thrillers of the year find long-standing series in fine form, as well as newcomers to the genre leaving their ...

As this selection of the best alternate-history novels demonstrates ... In 1780, with the American revolution in full swing, Lord North, Britain’s prime minister, authorises a plot to capture ...