By Alida Becker The Best Historical Fiction of 2023 It’s been a roller coaster of a year. Thankfully, we’ve had novels to whisk us to days gone by, even if those eras had their own highs and lows.

History is inescapable. Decisions are made on the back of past events, and lives are affected by the stories of those that came before us. Historical fiction books resonate with modern readers because ...

The reality is that we often ignored the contributions of nonwhite suffragists in many of our lessons and in-class discussions.

Nothing gets kids excited about history like a gripping story. Times, people, and places that might seem dull or far away in a textbook come to living, breathing life in historical novels like the ...

Han Kang has won the Nobel Prize for literature, the Swedish Academy announced Thursday, for “intense poetic prose that ...

It is suggestive in a way that a dual biography could not legitimately be. As readers reflect on their summer reading, perhaps History Today might encourage them to submit Cam-style classifications of ...

What you are reading does not even matter. It could be a self-help book, a mystery, or a favorite science fiction series. Reading is an accessible activity. It requires no special equipment other than ...