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Featured Excerpt: Project Mind Control

DCI Allen Dulles on the cover of Time magazine in 1953, the year that he established MKULTRA.

by John Lisle

In Project Mind Control, John Lisle reveals inside story of the CIA’s secret mind control project,…
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Life and Death in Berlin: Discovering the City Through the Zeitzeugenbörse

by Sinclair McKay

Wcag Heading These were children who had known only a world of violence.…
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Unknown History: The Siege of Berlin in 1948

by Giles Milton

We teamed up with the Unknown History podcast on Quick and Dirty Tips to bring you…
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Unknown History: Churchill’s Iron Curtain

by Giles Milton

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Unknown History: The Great Berlin Power Struggle

by Giles Milton

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Michał Goleniewski: The Best Cold War Spy You’ve Never Heard Of

Goleniewski

by Tim Tate

WCAG Heading Sixty years ago the best Cold War spy the West ever…
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Unknown History: Russia’s Secret Revolutionaries

by Giles Milton

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Unknown History: Berlin Turns Red

by Giles Milton

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Unknown History: The Colonel Who Went to War

by Giles Milton

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Elizabeth Bentley: The True Story That Inspired a Novel

Elizabeth

by Karin Tanabe

WCAG Heading When I decided that I wanted to write about a woman…
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Cold War

Featured Excerpt: The Sea Captain’s Wife

Neptune's Car Clipper Ship.

by Tilar J. Mazzeo

In The Sea Captain's Wife, New York Times bestselling author Tilar J.…
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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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