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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 ...
What about CVS? According to USA Today, CVS pharmacies will be open on Thanksgiving Day, although possibly with reduced hours ...
Payne liked the creative challenge of finding beauty and order in places that were traditionally unphotogenic or cluttered, ...
A Boston author has published a new book highlighting the connection between a deadly 1960 plane crash in Boston Harbor and the extraordinary talent of a woman who helped make the skies safer.
Art historian Cat Dawson’s new book invites us to contemplate a world populated by subversive monuments — or one that does ...
Thanksgiving turkeys are part of the holiday. Learn about the history of turkey on Thanksgiving and find out why do we eat ...
"A comparative approach to the evolution of kissing," was published by Evolution and Human Behavior on Nov. 19 ...
SETI’s ‘Noah’s Ark’ – a space historian explores how the advent of radio astronomy led to the USSR’s search for ...
Costume designer Paul Tazewell told PEOPLE in 2024 that the silver slippers were inspired by L. Frank Baum's 'The Wizard of Oz' ...
A Boston author has published a new book highlighting the connection between a deadly 1960 plane crash in Boston Harbor and ...
A Star Trek–inspired idea by Miguel Alcubierre kicked off decades of theory and experiments as scientists pursue plausible ...
Nakamura, whom Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn called “a one-of-a-kind American hero,” died on Saturday, Nov. 22.