Basic Books

Neil Price recently joined @HistoryHit's Gone Medieval podcast to discuss Viking burials and his new book, THE SEA-KING AND THE SORCERESS.

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The highly acclaimed and award-winning history title, THE SUMMER OF FIRE AND BLOOD by Lyndal Roper, is now available in paperback!

This definitive account of the German Peasants’ War (1524–26) exposes the rebellion’s far-reaching ramifications through the stories of the people themselves. THE SUMMER OF FIRE AND BLOOD reconstructs the thrilling, tragic saga of the peasants’ fight to change the world.

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Happy publication day to IN LATIN AMERICA YOU COULD BE FREE!

Yesenia Barragan rewrites conventional histories of slavery in the antebellum era to prove that emancipation was a hemispheric effort.

“Compelling, beautifully written…A tour de force.” —Greg Grandin, author of America, América

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On this day in 1989, the Berlin Wall fell, marking a monumental turning point in the Cold War and the fall of the Iron Curtain.

In BEYOND THE WALL, acclaimed historian @hoyer_kat provides “an expansive and generous history” (@newrepublic) of East Germany. Drawing upon on a vast array of never-before-seen interviews and documents, Hoyer sets aside the usual Cold War caricatures of the GDR to offer a kaleidoscopic new vision of this vanished country,

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November is Native American Heritage Month. Explore the histories, cultures, and enduring legacies of Indigenous peoples through these 4 essential reads.

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