The Ten Best History Books of 2019 | Arts & Culture - Smithsonian.com

Our favorite titles of the year resurrect forgotten histories and help explain how we got to where we are today, as Angela Serratore, writer and a contributing editor at Smithsonian.com reports.  
 

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  The history books we loved most in 2019 span centuries, nations and wars. From womanhood to nationhood, they challenge the construction of identity and mythology. They tell the stories of celebrity weddings, bootlegging trials, and people, places and things we thought we knew but prove, upon closer inspection, to be far more complex.

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