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Veterans Day: Remembering Those Who Served

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WCAG Heading WCAG Heading WCAG Heading by The History Reader Veterans Day is the day we…
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A ‘Most Honest Horse Thief’: James Byrnes’ Role In Japan’s Conditional Surrender

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WCAG Heading WCAG Heading WCAG Heading By Paul Ham Upon his swearing in as President Harry…
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Albert Einstein and the Atomic Bomb

WCAG HeadingWCAG HeadingWCAG HeadingBy Dr. Jürgen Neffe Albert Einstein, 1879-1955. Credit: Library of Congress.   Since…
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Atomic Letters: Einstein, Roosevelt, Sachs

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WCAG Heading WCAG Heading WCAG Heading By Callie Oettinger Albert Einstein to President Franklin D. Roosevelt,…
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How Much Did Stalin Know?

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WCAG Heading WCAG Heading WCAG Heading By Micheal D. Gordin On July 16, a day before…
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The Curious Case of Nuremberg’s Hangman

View of the defendants in the dock at the International Military Tribunal trial of war criminals in Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany. November 1945. Public domain. Courtesy of Wikimedia.

by Tim Queeney

In his book Rope, author Tim Queeney takes readers on a unique and…
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Featured Excerpt: Gemini

stronaut James Lovell is photographed inside his Gemini spacecraft during the Gemini-12 mission

by Jeffrey Kluger

Named by Time Magazine as one of the most anticipated books of fall…
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Featured Excerpt: Progress

Ancient civilization

by Samuel Miller McDonald

In Progress: How One Idea Built Civilization and Now Threatens to Destroy…
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2025 Holiday Gift Guide

The History Reader 2025 Holiday Gift Guide
This December, we're taking a look back at the many fascinating history books that published this…
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Featured Excerpt: Family of Spies

It began with a mysterious letter from a screenwriter, asking about a story. Your family. World…
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Post-Holocene Progress

Maerten van Heemskerck - Panorama with the Abduction of Helen Amidst the Wonders of the Ancient World

by Samuel Miller McDonald

Samuel Miller McDonald's book, Progress: How One Idea Built Civilization and Now…
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The Last Launch of the Gemini Program

Gemini 12 prime crew: Astronauts James A. Lovell Jr. (right), command pilot, and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., pilot.

by Jeffrey Kluger

On November 11, 1966, NASA launched Gemini 12, the last manned spaceflight in…
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Featured Excerpt: A Promise Delivered

Van Thomas Barfoot newly promoted US Army Lieutenant circa 1944.

by Ty Seidule and Connor Williams

In 2020, a bipartisan act of Congress mandated changing the…
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