History

History (from Greek ἱστορία - historia, meaning "inquiry, knowledge acquired by investigation") is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians. It is a field of research which uses a narrative to examine and analyse the sequence of events, and it sometimes attempts to investigate objectively the patterns of cause and effect that determine events. Historians debate the nature of history and its usefulness. This includes discu ...more

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End of Days: Ruby Ridge, the Apocalypse, and the Unmaking of America

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American Struggle: Democracy, Dissent, and the Pursuit of a More Perfect Union: An Anthology

Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia

The Last Kings of Hollywood: Coppola, Lucas, Spielberg―and the Battle for the Soul of American Cinema

I Told You So!: Scientists Who Were Ridiculed, Exiled, and Imprisoned for Being Right

We the Women: The Hidden Heroes Who Shaped America

Rebel of the Regency: The Scandalous Saga of Caroline of Brunswick, Britain’s Queen Without a Crown – A Feminist History of the Royal Family and Georgian England

Throne of Grace: A Mountain Man, an Epic Adventure, and the Bloody Conquest of the American West

The Mixed Marriage Project: A Memoir of Love, Race, and Family

Super Nintendo: The Game-Changing Company That Unlocked the Power of Play

A History of Scottish Witches: The Devil's Handmaidens

The Escapes of David George: An Odyssey of Slavery, Freedom, and the American Revolution

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Kingdom of Devils: A Tale of Murder in the Shadow of the American Revolution

Katherine Grandjean

Release date: Jun 09, 2026

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The Cruelty of Nice Folks: Why Minneapolis Is the Story of America

Justin Ellis

Release date: Jun 16, 2026

A revelatory look at one of America's most progressive cities—Minneapolis—as journalist Justin Ellis returns to his hometown to grapple with the quiet A revelatory look at one of America's most progressive cities—Minneapolis—as journalist Justin Ellis returns to his hometown to grapple with the quiet history of white supremacy there in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, and in turn uncovers his family’s story of surviving “Minnesota nice.”

It’s the “North,” they like to say, not the Midwest. It’s different. We’re nice here, progressive; Minneapolis is a city for everyone. But in 2020, George Floyd’s murder by police left many Americans stunned and wondering, “how could this happen in Minneapolis?” To Ellis, the real question is what made people think it couldn’t?

The Minneapolis Justin Ellis knows and loves—where he grew up and his family has lived for generations—is not the idealistic metropolis that its politicians and its most vocal proponents proclaim. The city of lakes was built on discrimination—in its housing, its schools, its politics—much like all other American cities. Black families were systematically cut out of the prosperous neighborhoods, lush parks and pristine lakes that make Minneapolis a haven of the heartland. Because of its image as a liberal ally in the fight for civil rights, Minneapolis has rarely been forced to confront this fact. In reality, as in the rest of America since its founding, the struggles of Black families in Minnesota have been celebrated or erased in an effort to maintain neighborly harmony and the quality of life Minnesotans cherish above all else.

The Cruelty of Nice Folks is both an indictment of the false face of progressivism and a love letter to the ways Black life has thrived despite the forces working against it. From the original theft of land upon which Minneapolis was built, through his family’s journey to establish a life there, to George Floyd’s murder, The Cruelty of Nice Folks is about one place—but it’s also about America. It is the story of a racial reckoning deferred, and of an America that remains tethered to the inequalities it has always been unwilling to confront. ...more
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Soccernomics (2026 World Cup Edition): Why European Men and American Women Usually Win―and American Men Don’t (Yet)

Simon Kuper,

Stefan Szymanski

Release date: May 05, 2026

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“ I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance. ”
― Beryl Markham, West with the Night

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