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Hitler’s Jewish Army

by Ellen Feldman

While conducting research for her novel, author Ellen Feldman stumbled upon one of…
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Benghabrit: The Muslim Rector who saved Jews from the Gestapo

by Susan Cahill The Grand Mosque of Paris was built between 1922 and 1926 to symbolize…
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A Judenrat’s Financial Triumph Over the Gestapo

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by Michael Bornstein and Debbie Bornstein Holinstat It was March 1941. Nearly a year had passed…
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Life Inside the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp

by David Cesarani Until the mass eviction of German Jews to Theresienstadt, the ghetto-camp had a…
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Elie Wiesel: Night

Elie Wiesel
Preface to Night by Elie Wiesel If in my lifetime I was to write only one…
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Ben Mankiewicz: “If Your Last Name Is Mankiewicz”

by Ben Mankiewicz Writing about my father should be easy. But it isn’t. Writing is supposed…
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Primo Levi: An Author Q&A

Primo Levi
by Sergio Luzzatto No other Auschwitz survivor has been as literately powerful and historically influential as…
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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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Featured Excerpt: The Last Secret Agent

by Pippa Latour with Jude Dobson

After decades of silence, the last surviving World War II…
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Fascinating Historical Finds: May 2025

Looking for your next history read? Check out our favorite new history books publishing in May…
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Lincoln Ellsworth—American Polar Explorer (Part II)

by Buddy Levy

In Part I published previously on The History Reader, author Buddy Levy introduces…
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Guns, Chainsaws and Swords: The Rivals of the Humble Axe

Ahmose ceremonial axe

by Rachel McCarthy James

Whack Job author Rachel McCarthy James takes a look at how guns, chainsaws,…
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Lincoln’s First Responder

by Tom Clavin

Earlier this week—April 14th—was the 160th anniversary of our Sixteenth President's assassination. Author…
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Featured Excerpt: The Rebel Romanov

by Helen Rappaport

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Romanov Sisters comes the story of a…
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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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