The key themes that defined the year behind us will also shape the one ahead. The most-read articles of 2025 tracked a return ...

Compared to the pandemic-era record lows observed just a few years ago, mortgage rates feel uncomfortably high. But when someone points out that mortgages are still painfully expensive right now, a ...

The editors of The New York Times Book Review bring you the best historical fiction of 2025, great World War II novels, our latest reviews, books with “Hamnet” vibes, novels that transport you to the ...

How to Blur Your Background in a Zoom Call: Desktop & Mobile Your email has been sent Learn how to easily blur your background in a Zoom call in this step-by-step guide. Remember to check the minimum ...

Research in the historical background of human health and life expectancy remains divided, with research confined within strict disciplinary boundaries. Although historians, demographers, economists, ...

We all love a good historical game, don’t we? Games that are both educational and entertaining in equal measure. Of course, there’s a LOT of them out there and they can be incredibly difficult to sift ...

Section 1. Purpose and Policy. Over the past decade, Americans have witnessed a concerted and widespread effort to rewrite our Nation’s history, replacing objective facts with a distorted narrative ...

Judging by the volume of forthcoming fantasy fiction that takes place in the past, historicals are having a moment. Mira editor Dina Davis, for one, has thoughts on why that might be. “People are ...

In his book The Mathematical Universe, mathematician William Dunham wrote of John Venn’s namesake legacy, the Venn diagram, “No one in the long history of mathematics ever became better known for less ...

Late in the new movie The Report, Adam Driver’s Dan Jones argues with his prospective defense attorney over who really said, “History is written by the victors.” The lawyer (played by Corey Stoll) ...