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Cape Coast Castle’s Role in the Transatlantic Slave Trade
by Siddharth Kara
Pulitzer Prize-finalist Siddharth Kara visited the Gold Coast in Africa while doing research…
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Julie of Saxe-Coburg’s Sister-in-Law: Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg
by Helen Rappaport
New York Times bestselling author Helen Rappaport shares the unhappy,…
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Dying to Be Beautiful: Deadly Cosmetics
by Eleanor Herman
WCAG Heading The story of poison is the story of power. For centuries, royal…
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Dictators, the Books They Wrote, and Other Catastrophes of Literacy
wcag heading by Daniel Kalder Since the days of the Roman Empire dictators have written books.…
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The Many Affairs of Crown Prince Rudolf
WCAG Headingby Greg King and Penny Wilson On a snowy January morning in 1889, a worried…
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Echoes of Mayerling: The Unlikely Career of Countess Marie Larisch
WCAG Headingby Greg King and Penny Wilson By 1918, the Austro-Hungarian and the German Empires had…
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The Rise and Fall of the Viking Crusades
WCAG Headingby John Haywood The Wendish Crusade In 1144, the crusaders lost the key city of…
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The Lewis Chessmen: Brexit and a New North Sea Style
WCAG Headingby Nancy Marie Brown Look at a map and remember the key position this area…
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The Incredible Case of Monsignor Scarano
WCAG Headingby Gianluigi Nuzzi In March 2013, before the election of the new Pontiff, the prosecutors’…
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European History
Featured Excerpt: The Sea Captain’s Wife
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
by Tim Queeney
In his book Rope, author Tim Queeney takes readers on a unique and…
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Featured Excerpt: Gemini
by Jeffrey Kluger
Named by Time Magazine as one of the most anticipated books of fall…
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Featured Excerpt: Progress
by Samuel Miller McDonald
In Progress: How One Idea Built Civilization and Now Threatens to Destroy…
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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
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
by Jeffrey Kluger
On November 11, 1966, NASA launched Gemini 12, the last manned spaceflight in…
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