History

History (from Greek ἱστορία - historia, meaning "inquiry, knowledge acquired by investigation") is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians. It is a field of research which uses a narrative to examine and analyse the sequence of events, and it sometimes attempts to investigate objectively the patterns of cause and effect that determine events. Historians debate the nature of history and its usefulness. This includes discu ...more

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Evergreen: The Trees That Shaped America

The Tower and the Ruin: J.R.R. Tolkien's Creation

After Purity: Race, Sex, and Religion in White Christian America

The Great Heist: China’s Epic Campaign to Steal America’s Secrets

The Most Awful Responsibility: Truman and the Secret Struggle for Control of the Atomic Age

The Rage of Party: How Whig versus Tory made modern Britain

In the Arena: Theodore Roosevelt in War, Peace, and Revolution

Sweet Victory: How the Berlin Airlift Divided East and West

Without Consent: A Landmark Trial and the Decades-Long Struggle to Make Spousal Rape a Crime

The Stolen Crown: Treachery, Deceit, and the Death of the Tudor Dynasty

Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore

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The Six Queens of Henry VIII

Honor Cargill-Martin (Goodreads Author),

Jaimee Andrews (Illustrator)

Release date: Feb 03, 2026

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Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia

Sam Dalrymple

Release date: Feb 03, 2026

A history of modern South Asia told through five partitions that reshaped it.

We think of the Raj as controlling only India and Pakistan, and its brea ...more
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The Wall Dancers: Searching for Freedom and Connection on the Chinese Internet

Yi-Ling Liu (Goodreads Author)

Release date: Feb 03, 2026

An indelible, deeply reported human narrative of contemporary China in which the country’s carefully controlled internet offers a lens into the broade An indelible, deeply reported human narrative of contemporary China in which the country’s carefully controlled internet offers a lens into the broader national tension between freedom and control

In the late 1990s, as the world was waking up to the power of the internet as a space of unprecedented connection and opportunity, Chinese authorities began constructing a system of online surveillance and censorship that became known as the Great Firewall. The online world that sprouted up behind the firewall was no less vibrant for being controlled, and in the years that followed China incubated a booming tech culture and a digital public square.

But today, as the country’s leadership has tightened the reins on public discourse and western headlines reduce the Chinese populace to a faceless monolith, journalist Yi-Ling Liu argues, China’s singular online ecosystem may well be the most direct lens we have into the on-the-ground reality of life there. In tracing the evolution of the Chinese internet—from its lexicon to its memes to the precise nature of its censorship—Liu equips readers with a critical tool to assess the past, present, and future of a global power.

Far-reaching in its scope and meticulously reported, The Wall Dancers spans the last three decades in China, a period that encapsulates the country’s transformation into both the world’s largest online userbase and one of its most dominant authoritarian states—from 1995, when ordinary Chinese people first logged onto the internet, swept up by its emancipatory promise, to the present day, as China polices its physical and virtual borders with unprecedented intensity. Drawing on years of intimate reporting, Liu weaves together the stories of individual citizens striving for freedom and community within state boundaries. As Liu’s subjects experience firsthand the internet’s power as a tool of both state control and individual liberation, they grapple with universal questions of success and authenticity, love and solidarity, faith and survival.

The Wall Dancers is at once an unforgettable work of human storytelling and a vital window into a global power that we simplify and misunderstand at our peril. ...more
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