"Given Our History" was an enjoyable friends-to-lovers romance. Clara and Teddy met at a summer camp for homeschooled children and developed a long-distance friendship that eventually developed the possibility of something more. However, life and stubbornness interfered, and they went from friends to strangers, not talking for years. But fate was not done with them, as they both became history professors, and as Teddy applied to be a visiting professor in the history department at the university where Clara teaches. Due to space constraints, they also end up sharing an office. The story alternates between the present and past, introducing the reader to how Clara and Teddy became friends and how that friendship became derailed, and the circumstances that give them a possible second chance, if they can grasp it.

I was amused that "Lectures on the Philosophy of History" by Hegel was the book that a teenage Clara chose to send to Teddy to start their long-distance book club. Definitely not the typical choice for a book club or an introduction to history and historiography. I would have chosen "What is History?" by E.H. Carr.

It was fabulously written, emotional and completely stunning. I can’t recommend it highly enough. The characters are both fantastic. They are loveable, realistic and the way their relationship blossoms is simply beautiful