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Excerpt: Fire and Light: How the Enlightenment Transformed Our World

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WCAG Heading WCAG Heading WCAG Heading By James MacGregor Burns Enlightenment as Revolution For hundreds of…
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Lessons from Winston Churchill: Withdrawal from Afghanistan

Churchill's First War
WCAG Heading WCAG Heading WCAG Heading By Con Coughlin As America’s long decade of war in…
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Gideon’s Spies (Excerpt)

WCAG Heading By Gordon Thomas Check out Gordon Thomas’s bestselling Gideon’s Spies which draws from classified…
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Excerpt: Tudors

WCAG Heading By Peter Ackroyd 1 Hallelujah The land was flowing with milk and honey. On…
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Excerpt: A History of Ancient Egypt

WCAG Heading By John Romer Beside the Pale Lake Living in the Faiyum,5000–4000 BC It was…
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A Brief Discussion on the History of England with Peter Ackroyd

Tudors

by Peter Ackroyd

WCAG Heading Michael Hoak: The history of England is full of watershed moments and events that…
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The Pope’s Last Crusade: How an American Jesuit Helped Pope Pius XI’s Campaign to Stop Hitler

Pope Pius XI
WCAG Heading WCAG Heading WCAG Heading By Peter Eisner Castel Gandolfo, June 23, 1938 Two days…
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Understanding Haiti

Map of Haiti
WCAG Heading WCAG Heading WCAG Heading By Laurent Dubois On January 12, 2010, Haiti was struck…
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Legions of Rome: Where It All Began

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by Stephen Dando-Collins

WCAG Heading WCAG Heading WCAG Heading By Stephen Dando-Collins Down through the centuries, millions of men…
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President Kennedy: Berlin, Laos, and “Flexible Response”

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WCAG Heading WCAG Heading WCAG Heading By Alan Brinkley Late in May 1961, Kennedy decided to…
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World History

This Is a Pretty Country We Live In: The Trial of Anne Royall

Ducking stool illustration

by Jack Kelly

In honor of Anne Royall's birthday (June 11, 1769), author Jack Kelly shares…
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Ben Franklin Gets Juiced With a Little Hemp

Ben West's painting of Benjamin Franklin drawing electricity from the sky.

by Tim Queeney

In June of 1752, with some sources specifically saying the tenth of June, Benjamin Franklin conducted…
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Dear Mr. Coppola: A True War Story from Việt Nam

by Alex Vernon

Alex Vernon of Peace is a Shy Thing discusses reality versus cinema during…
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Historical Summer Reading: June 2025

Looking for your next history read? Check out some of our favorite new history books publishing…
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10 Genius Ideas from the Roman Empire That Still Matter Today

The Roman Empire Got It Right

by Steven Marr

The Roman Empire’s brilliance is far from ancient history. The Roman Empire Got…
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Chor-Bazaar: The Thieves Market

by Nev March

The Silversmith's Puzzle author Nev March explains the storied history…
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The MKULTRA Conspiracy

by John Lisle

Project Mind Control's John Lisle explains how something as classified…
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Featured Excerpt: Whack Job

by Rachel McCarthy James

Whack Job is a brilliant and bloody examination of the axe's foundational…
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