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Excerpt: Fire and Light: How the Enlightenment Transformed Our World
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
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
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
WCAG Heading WCAG Heading WCAG Heading By Peter Eisner Castel Gandolfo, June 23, 1938 Two days…
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Understanding 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
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”
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
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
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
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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