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The Ten Best History Books of 2025

Our favorite titles of the year resurrect overlooked histories and examine how the United States ended up where it is today ...
CRF Publishing LLC's newly released book series connects pivotal American historical events to today's political discourse.
Wendy L. Wall, professor of 20th-century American history at Binghamton University The unprecedented nature of this attack, combined with the widespread sense that it marks a historical turning point, ...
The Dover Area School Board unanimously approved a new history textbook despite some board members having reservations and questions about the text containing biases. The book, "American History: ...
NEW ORLEANS — As some middle school students in Louisiana open their textbooks to learn about state history, there’s concern they’re not getting the entire history. “I would be very surprised if sixth ...
The teaching of history has become a flashpoint in the culture wars. But while the battle is fierce, it’s not new. An earlier round in the conflict in the 1920s — over the teaching of the American ...
U.S. history textbooks for high schoolers are lacking when it comes to covering the Latino experience, a report by the Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy and Latino civil rights organization ...