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Old Houses of the West

Where

by Sandra Dallas

dd Novelist Sandra Dallas joins us to discuss the inspiration behind her latest…
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The Lost Love Letters of Teddy Roosevelt

State

by Mary Calvi

WCAG Heading “Love at first sight,” a Harvard College student writes in his private…
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Not the Mother: The Relationship Between the Lindberghs and Betty Gow

Chaslesi

by Mariah Fredericks

Wcag Heading The kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh Jr. shocked the world in 1932.…
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The Aftereffects of War

ruined

by Bill Glose

WCAG Heading To fully understand a specific war, one must not only study…
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Tutankhamun: A Tomb Like No Other

Outer Coffin

by Tasha Alexander

dd Few stories in the history of stories are better than that of…
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The Hedgehog in WWII

Hedgehog anti

by P. T. Deutermann

WCAG Heading My latest novel, The Last Paladin, out this month, is…
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The Anniversary of Hadrian’s Wall

Section of Hadrians

by Ann Cleeves

WCAG Heading This year marks the 1900th anniversary of Hadrian’s Wall. According to a history…
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Faulkner the Pilot

William Faulkner

by Taylor Brown

WCAG Heading “This was 1915 and ‘16. I had seen an aeroplane and…
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The Echoes of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive

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by Jess Montgomery

WCAG Heading Throughout my Kinship Historical Mystery Series, I’ve woven events of the…
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Three Sisters: How One Family Survived Auschwitz

by Heather Morris

Inspired by a true story, Three Sisters follows the journey of Livia, Magda, and Cibi as…
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Historical Fiction

Featured Excerpt: The Sea Captain’s Wife

Neptune's Car Clipper Ship.

by Tilar J. Mazzeo

In The Sea Captain's Wife, New York Times bestselling author Tilar J.…
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The Curious Case of Nuremberg’s Hangman

View of the defendants in the dock at the International Military Tribunal trial of war criminals in Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany. November 1945. Public domain. Courtesy of Wikimedia.

by Tim Queeney

In his book Rope, author Tim Queeney takes readers on a unique and…
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Featured Excerpt: Gemini

stronaut James Lovell is photographed inside his Gemini spacecraft during the Gemini-12 mission

by Jeffrey Kluger

Named by Time Magazine as one of the most anticipated books of fall…
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Featured Excerpt: Progress

Ancient civilization

by Samuel Miller McDonald

In Progress: How One Idea Built Civilization and Now Threatens to Destroy…
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2025 Holiday Gift Guide

The History Reader 2025 Holiday Gift Guide
This December, we're taking a look back at the many fascinating history books that published this…
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Featured Excerpt: Family of Spies

It began with a mysterious letter from a screenwriter, asking about a story. Your family. World…
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Post-Holocene Progress

Maerten van Heemskerck - Panorama with the Abduction of Helen Amidst the Wonders of the Ancient World

by Samuel Miller McDonald

Samuel Miller McDonald's book, Progress: How One Idea Built Civilization and Now…
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The Last Launch of the Gemini Program

Gemini 12 prime crew: Astronauts James A. Lovell Jr. (right), command pilot, and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., pilot.

by Jeffrey Kluger

On November 11, 1966, NASA launched Gemini 12, the last manned spaceflight in…
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