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Riveting Historical Reads: April 2025

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

Fear No Pharaoh

A dramatic history of how American Jews reckoned with slavery—and fought the Civil War. Kreitner illuminates the shifting dynamics of Jewish life in America and the debates about religion, morality, and politics that endure to this day.

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Missing Persons

Blending private and public history, cultural analysis, family memoir, and autobiography, Clair Wills explores profound questions about memory, loss, motherhood, and emigration.

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The Birth of Korean Cool

A fresh, funny, up-close look at how South Korea remade itself as the world’s pop culture powerhouse of the twenty-first century.

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The Last American Road Trip

A New York Times bestselling author navigates a changing America as she and her family embark on a series of road trips, in a book that is part memoir, part history, and wholly unique.

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Eminent Jews

Leonard Bernstein, Mel Brooks, Betty Friedan, and Norman Mailer. Brilliant, brash, yet soulful, they were 100 percent Jewish and 100 percent American. They upended the restrained culture of their forebears and changed American life.

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The Rebel Romanov

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Romanov Sisters comes the story of a courageous young Imperial Grand Duchess who scandalized Europe in search of freedom.

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Double Exposure

A personal exploration of the American West and the work of one of America’s greatest photographers.

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Hitler's Aristocrats

Susan Ronald, acclaimed author of Hitler’s Art Thief, takes readers into the shadowy world of the aristocrats and business leaders on both sides of the Atlantic who secretly aided Hitler and Nazi Germany.

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