Dorie McCullough Lawson and Michael Hill will present David McCullough’s “History Matters” at the Closing event on Sunday, September 28th! Tickets are currently available through the History Book Festival website.📚

Hampton Sides will present “The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook” at the Keynote event on Friday, September 26th! This event is currently SOLD OUT! 📚

Dolen Perkins-Valdez will present “Happy Land: A Novel” on Saturday, September 27th! 📚 @dolenperkinsvaldez.bsky.social

Chanel Cleeton will present “The Lost Story of Eva Fuentes: A Novel” on Saturday, September 27th! 📚

Sam Kean will present “Dinner with King Tut: How Rogue Archaeologists Are Recreating the Sights, Sounds, Smells, and Tastes of Lost Civilizations” on Saturday, September 27th!📚 @samkean.bsky.social

Marlene L. Daut will present “The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe” on Saturday, September 27th! 📚

Margalit Fox will present “The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum: The Rise and Fall of an American Organized-Crime Boss” on Saturday, September 27th! 📚 @margalitfox.bsky.social

Fara Dabhoiwala will present “What Is Free Speech? The History of a Dangerous Idea” on Saturday, September 27th!📚

Elaine Weiss will present “Spell Freedom: The Underground Schools That Built the Civil Rights Movement” on Saturday, September 27th! 📚

Michelle Young will present “The Art Spy: The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland” on Saturday, September 27th!📚 @michelleyoung.bsky.social

Nicole Nehrig will present “With Her Own Hands: Women Weaving Their Stories” on Saturday, September 27th!📚

Milo Todd will present “The Lilac People: A Novel” on Saturday, September 27th!📚 @todd-milo.bsky.social

Lonnae O’Neal will present “Bibb Country: Unearthing My Family Secrets of Land, Legacy and Lettuce” on Saturday, September 27th! 📚

James Lacey will present “The Year God Died: Jesus and the Roman Empire in 33 AD” on Saturday, September 27th! 📚

Steven Schwankert will present “The Six: The Untold Story of the Titanic’s Chinese Survivors” on Saturday, September 27th! 📚

Caleb Gayle will present “Black Moses: A Saga of Ambition and the Fight for a Black State” on Saturday, September 27th! 📚 @calebgayle.bsky.social

Jesse Browner will present “Sing to Me: A Novel” on Saturday, September 27th! 📚

Andrew J. Lyter will present “Going Among English Sailors: American Tars Aboard HMS Belvidera, 1809-1814” on Saturday, September 27th! 📚

Joseph Lee will present “Nothing More of This Land: Community, Power, and the Search for Indigenous Identity” on Saturday, September 27th! 📚 @josephvlee.bsky.social

Riley Black will present “When the Earth Was Green: Plants, Animals and Evolution’s Greatest Romance” on Saturday, September 27th! 📚 @restingdinoface.bsky.social

Saladin Ambar will present “Murder on the Mississippi: The Shocking Crimes that Shaped Abraham Lincoln” on Saturday, September 27th! 📚

Justene Hill Edwards will present “Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman’s Bank” on Saturday, September 27th! 📚