Everyone should study history, and here are 20 books I think everyone should read. They are expressly not the “best” history books ever written: no one can possibly have read the tens of thousands in ...

Reading historical fiction is a powerful way to experience the past through the eyes of someone living a very different life. And historical fiction books set in Germany are a popular subset of the ...

Anthony Grafton is a historian of Renaissance Europe and the Henry Putnam University Professor of History at Princeton, where he has taught since 1975. His most recent book, co-authored with Maren ...

Key Point: History could have been very different for Germany. When it comes to alternative history, the Second World War is king. Dozens of books and wargames suggest how history would have changed ...