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Historical Summer Reading: June 2025

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

Charles Sumner

A landmark biography of Charles Sumner, the unsung hero of the American Civil War and Reconstruction.

Larry McMurtry

Now in paperback. A biography of the late Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and screenwriter Larry McMurtry from New York Times bestselling author Tracy Daugherty.

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Kuleana

Set in one of the world’s most beautiful landscapes, Kuleana is the story of an award-winning journalist’s effort to hold on to her family’s ancestral Hawaiian lands—and find herself along the way.

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Every Weapon I Had

The story of a Green Beret commander’s heroism during the Vietnam War, and the long fight to recognize his bravery.

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Threads of Empire

Carpet specialist Dorothy Armstrong tells the stories surrounding twelve of the world’s most fascinating carpets.

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