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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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Five New History Books to Read This February

From the dramatic story of a Black man’s relentless search for freedom in Revolutionary-era America to…
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Good With a Gun

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by Tom Clavin

WCAG Heading In the following excerpt from Follow Me to Hell, Tom Clavin introduces…
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Capturing the Cross

by Tom Clavin

WCAG Heading This year is the 150th anniversary of the taking of one of…
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Old Houses of the West

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by Sandra Dallas

dd Novelist Sandra Dallas joins us to discuss the inspiration behind her latest…
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Bat Back in Dodge City

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by Tom Clavin

dd dd There were four lawmen who participated in the legendary Gunfight at…
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Crazy Horse and Custer

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by Tom Clavin

WCAG Heading June 25th marks the anniversary of the Little Bighorn battle that…
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The Gunfighter and the Explorer

by Tom Clavin

WCAG Heading 151 years ago, a journey to Africa began that would garner international…
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Setting the Scene: Arizona in the Early 20th Century

by Nancy Turner

WCAG Heading by Nancy E. Turner Nancy E. Turner discusses her latest novel, Light Changes Everything,…
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Westering Women: A Celebration of Sisterhood on the Overland Trail

by Sandra Dallas

WCAG Heading Sandra Dallas, author of the recently released novel, Westering Women, offers…
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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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The Importance of Mud

by Jane Ziegelman

Once Upon a Town author Jane Ziegelman credits her studies in cultural anthropology…
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Featured Excerpt: The Escapes of David George

Map from The Escapes of David George. Credit: Credit: Springer Cartographics

by Gregory E. O'Malley

When most Americans think of slavery, they do not picture the colonial…
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