If you’re ever wondering what upcoming history books we have publishing, look no further! Each month we’ll bring you our favorite historical reads publishing at Macmillan. Here are our picks for March 2025: Henry Kissinger and American Power The definitive biography...
Paul Revere is most well-known for his extraordinary midnight ride, in which he said, “The British are coming! The British are coming.” Fewer people are aware though that Paul Revere was the jack of many trades, as The Ride author Kostya Kennedy shares with The...
Propaganda Girls author Lisa Rogak reveals some of the black propaganda material created by four women who spun the web of deception that helped win World War II. Marlene Dietrich with soldiers after performing in France. Public Domain. Warring countries have been...
Let’s honor the remarkable Black Americans throughout history with our favorite books. From the 19th century to the Civil Rights Movement to present day, our reading list for Black History Month is one you don’t want to miss. Bending Toward Justice The story of the...
Leaving Fayetteville Charles W. Chesnutt. (Public domain, Wikimedia Images.) On October 7, 1880, The Raleigh Signal, a Republican newspaper published by the Republican State Committee of North Carolina, introduced Chesnutt to the public. Hailing Chesnutt’s “rare...
View of Smeerenberg, Spitzbergen, Norway. A photomechanical print taken between 1890 and 1900. Public Domain. Realm of Ice and Sky by two-time National Outdoor Book Award-winning author Buddy Levy is a thrilling narrative of polar exploration via airship―and the men...
The Battle of Actium from The Story of Caesar and Cleopatra by Justus van Egmont. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. In A Rage to Conquer, award-winning author Michael Walsh brings history to life as he considers a group of courageous commanders and the battles they waged...
Author Buddy Levy shares his chilly experience in Ny Ålesund, Norway, where he gathered research materials for his book, Realm of Ice and Sky: Triumph, Tragedy, and History’s Greatest Arctic Rescue. Author Buddy Levy at the top of the world. Wind whips my face as I...
by Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch Belmont, New HampshireSeptember 1960 New York Daily News Archive/New York Daily News via Getty Images Richard Pavlick of Belmont, New Hampshire, really cares about flags. American flags, that is. When they’re hung, where they’re...
In Custodians of Wonder, Eliot Stein takes a vivid look at 10 astonishing people who are maintaining some of the world’s oldest and rarest cultural traditions. Read on for an introductory excerpt from the book. A late 19th century example of Burano lace. Courtesty of...
Suspense author Sharon Short shares the rich history behind Middle Island, the real-life location that inspired her new novel, Trouble Island. Middle Island, Lake Eerie, Ontario, Canada. Photo courtesy Wikipedia Commons. Years ago, I accompanied one of my daughters on...
Process invites proposals and submissions for an upcoming series on sensory history. We are open to a variety of themes relating to sensory history as both a methodology and a field and its intersections with various subfields of U.S. history, including histories of...
by Lydia Reeder Harriot Kezia Hunt, from a 1910 publication. (Public domain, Wikimedia Images.) For two days, on June 27 and 28, 1860, Dr. Harriot Kezia Hunt’s Boston home teemed with activity. Housemaids arranged dozens of flowers—roses, lilies, chrysanthemums,...
by The History Reader Shopping for any history-loving friends? Below is our holiday gift guide with our favorite books of 2024! The Cold Crematorium by József Debreczeni First published in Hungarian in 1950, The Cold Crematorium was never translated into a world...
Four Against the West by Joe Pappalardo is a thrilling true saga of legendary Texas figure Judge Roy Bean and his brothers―and their violent adventures in Wild West America. Read on for a chapter excerpt from Four Against the West that focuses on the legendary...
The Duchess of Windsor. Attributed to Angela Laviosa. Courtesy of Wikipedia. In Her Lotus Year: China, the Roaring Twenties, and the Making of Wallis Simpson, New York Times bestselling author Paul French examines a controversial and revealing period in the early life...
AUGUST 31, 2006. JENA, LOUISIANA. Example of a hanging tree in Dallas, Texas. Photo taken by Phoebe L. Friedman. In the morning light, three nooses hung ominously from a giant oak tree’s leafy branches outside Jena High School. There had been an unspoken rule. A...
Nothing motivates me to write as much as anger. My June 2024 Journal of American History article, ââBring Moneyâ: The Environmental Protection Agency, Sewer Infrastructure, and the Racialized Geography of the United States,â is a case in point. For quite some...