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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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Page-Turning Reads for Women’s History Month

by The History Reader From pharaohs to fashion and everything in between, this Women's History Month…
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Introduction to Eliot Stein’s Custodians of Wonder

by Eliot Stein

wcag heading wcag heading In Custodians of Wonder, Eliot Stein takes a vivid look at 10 astonishing people who…
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I Am a Respectable Person

by Jack Kelly

Elizabeth Jennings Graham. Public domain via…
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Groundhog Day: A Tradition of Top Hats, Marmots, and Shadows

by Philip Jett

WCAG Heading There are King Kong, Godzilla, and Bigfoot, all powerful, mythical creatures,…
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The Secret Life of Arsenic

by Neil Bradbury, Ph.D.

Wcag Heading Quick, think of a poison… There’s a good chance that…
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For Juneteenth: Inspiring Reads by Black Authors

Juneteenth

by The History Reader

WCAG Heading By The History Reader WCAG Heading As of January 1, 1863, all enslaved people…
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A Tour of the Belasco Theatre

by Mariah Fredericks

WCAG Heading It’s always wonderful when a novel becomes a cheap excuse to…
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How Norma Became Marilyn

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by Charles Casillo

WCAG Heading In this excerpt from his ground-breaking biography, Charles Casillo explores how…
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A Window into the Past

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by Jane K. Cleland

WCAG Heading If you want to know about a society’s values, mores,…
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Cultural History

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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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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Galileo’s Secret Sauce: People Skills

A portrait of Galileo by Flemish painter Justus Sustermans. Circa 1640. Public domain. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

by Matt Kaplan

In I Told You So!, author Matt Kaplan reveals how scientists from Darwin…
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Anne Sebba’s 7 Most Important Holocaust Books

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by Anne Sebba

On January 27, 1945, Auschwitz was finally liberated. In The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz, New York…
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The Landmarks of Mary Ann Patten’s Maine

by Tilar J. Mazzeo

New York Times bestselling author Tilar J. Mazzeo gives a behind-the-scenes look…
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Dolly Parton Knows Who She Is

Dolly Parton and Porter Wagoner, 1969.

by Martha Ackmann

Lifelong fan Martha Ackmann shares with The History Reader why she felt drawn…
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