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Must-Have Historical Reads: March 2025

Looking for your next history read? Check out our favorite new history books publishing in March 2025.

Henry Kissinger and American Power

The definitive biography of Henry Kissinger—at least for those who neither revere nor revile him. Thomas A. Schwartz brings us an essential guide to a man whose legacy is as complex as the last sixty years of U.S. history itself.

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Propaganda Girls

The incredible untold story of four women who spun the web of deception that helped win World War II. Bestselling author Lisa Rogak brings to vivid life the incredible true story of four unsung heroes, whose spellbinding achievements would change the course of history.

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Naples 1944

Award-winning author Keith Lowe’s newest critical deep-dive into the history of Naples during WWII. Naples 1944 is a page-turning book about a city on the brink of chaos and glimpse into the dark heart of postwar Italy.

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The Franklin Stove

The surprising story of Benjamin Franklin’s most famous invention—and a new take on the Founding Father we thought we knew. As the story of the Franklin stove shows, it’s not so easy to engineer our way out of a climate crisis; with this book, Joyce E. Chaplin reveals how that challenge is as old as the United States itself.

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The Man Nobody Killed

The first comprehensive book about Michael Stewart, the young Black artist and model who was the victim of a fatal assault by police in 1983, from Elon Green, the Edgar Award-winning author of Last Call.

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The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire

By the award-winning author of A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: a history of humanity on the brink of decline. With assured narration, dramatic stories, and his signature sprightly humor, Henry Gee envisions new opportunities for the future of humanity.

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Say Anarcha

A critically acclaimed reckoning with the birth of women’s healthcare that illuminates the sacrifices of a young woman who changed the world only to be forgotten by it—until now.

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The Ride

Timed for the 250th anniversary of one of America’s most famous founding events: Paul Revere’s legendary ride, newly told with fresh research into little-known aspects of the story Americans have heard since childhood but hardly understood.

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