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The True Treasure of Ancient Egypt

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by John and Colleen Darnell

WCAG Headingby Professor John Coleman Darnell and Dr. Colleen Darnell Egyptologists and authors of Egypt’s Golden…
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Tutankhamun: A Tomb Like No Other

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by Tasha Alexander

dd Few stories in the history of stories are better than that of…
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How to Find a Lost City

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by Edmund Richardson

WCAG Heading So you want to find a lost city? Congratulations: you’ve joined an…
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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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Inside Egypt’s Rock-Cut Tomb Chapels

WCAG Headingby John Romer For the majority of Westerners, the grand tour of Egypt had started…
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The Bones of John the Baptist

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WCAG Heading David Gibson and Michael McKinley WCAG Heading The Bones of John the Baptist The…
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Circumference: Round, Flat, and Egg-Shaped

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WCAG Headingby Nicholas Nicastro On a recent trip to Istanbul, I belatedly discovered a museum that…
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Finding Jesus: The Remarkable Story of the James Ossuary

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Our book, which takes six venerated objects connected to Jesus and looks at them through the…
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Ancient History

Featured Excerpt: The Feather Wars

Clover-Land Magazine [Northern Michigan University Archives]

by James H. McCommons

From the time the United States was founded, early Americans assumed that…
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Featured Excerpt: Milena and Margarete: A Love Story in Ravensbrück

Milena, circa 1930. Photo Credit: Milena and Margarete.

by Gwen Strauss

From the moment they met in 1940 in the Ravensbrück concentration camp, Milena…
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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

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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

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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

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by Joe Pappalardo

From a wrestler with cauliflower ears to ill-used dance hall girls to everyday…
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Featured Excerpt: 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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