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Researching The Living and the Lost

by Ellen Feldman

WCAG Heading It’s a truism that writers are always squirreling away random observations, eavesdropped…
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Oh, Those “Girton Girls!”

Barbara Bodichon

by Nancy Springer

WCAG Heading In 19th century England, while sons of the well-to-do were sent…
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Dominus: New Excerpt

Dominus one

by Steven Saylor

Spanning 160 years and seven generations, teeming with some of ancient Rome’s most vivid figures, Steven…
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Elizabeth Bentley: The True Story That Inspired a Novel

Elizabeth

by Karin Tanabe

WCAG Heading When I decided that I wanted to write about a woman…
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A Woman of Intelligence: Featured Excerpt

by Karin Tanabe

WCAG Heading Karin Tanabe’s A Woman of Intelligence is an exhilarating novel of post-war New York…
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USS Franklin: Attack, Survival, and Triumph

by P. T. Deutermann

WCAG Heading My novel, Trial by Fire, is based on the true…
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Ancient Rome’s Short-Lived Teen Emperor: Practical Joker, Drag Queen, Transgender?

by Steven Saylor

WCAG Heading Psssst! Have you heard about Elagabalus? They say he invented the world’s…
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The Sound of America in 1914

by Mariah Fredericks

WCAG Heading In 1914, the hot ticket on Broadway was On Trial, a play…
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The History Behind the Mystery: Safecracking 101

by Ashley Weaver

WCAG Heading One of my favorite parts of writing historical fiction is the new…
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A Tour of the Belasco Theatre

by Mariah Fredericks

WCAG Heading It’s always wonderful when a novel becomes a cheap excuse to…
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Historical Fiction

Featured Excerpt: Once There Was a Town

Lillian Chanales, portrait of author's grandmother pictured in mourning attire after husband's death.

by Jane Ziegelman

Described as an "animated tapestry" by The Wall Street Journal, Jane Ziegelman's Once…
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The Escapes of David George and the Stories We Tell About Slavery

The Escapes of David George Timeline

by Gregory E. O'Malley

by Gregory O'Malley When most people think of North American slavery, they most often think of…
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Featured Excerpt: The Great Abolitionist

Southern Chivalry Argument versus Club's depiction, 1856.

by Stephen Puleo

The Great Abolitionist is the first major biography of Charles Sumner to be published…
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Falling in Love with Texas’ Worst Town

Texas Ranger Frank Hamer

by Joe Pappalardo

From a wrestler with cauliflower ears to ill-used dance hall girls to everyday…
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I Told You So!

Thomas Sydenham – English physician (1624–1689).

by Matt Kaplan

From Darwin to Pasteur to modern-day scientists, Matt Kaplan's I Told You So!…
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Five History Books Coming This March!

The History Reader Upcoming Books March 2026
From society belles teaming up with gun manufacturers to save America's birds in The Feather Wars…
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The Battle of Wounded Knee

Portrait of Sitting Bull taken at the studio William Notman & Son, in Montreal, Canada, in 1885

by Tom Clavin

Two weeks after the death of Sitting Bull, tensions were high between the…
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Featured Excerpt: Emilio Pucci

Il Deputato Liberale Emilio Pucci, IV Legislatura Repubblica Italiana, 2016. Courtesy of Wikimedia. Public Domain.

by by Terence Ward and Idanna Pucci

Terence Ward and Idanna Pucci with a foreword by Suzy Menkes When people think of fashion…
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