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John Lisle
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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The MKULTRA Conspiracy
by John Lisle
Project Mind Control's John Lisle explains how something as classified…
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Featured Excerpt: Project Mind Control
by John Lisle
In Project Mind Control, John Lisle reveals inside story of the CIA’s secret mind control project,…
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Must-Read History Books of 2023
From spies, assassins, and dirty tricks in WWII to a revealing new biography of Jacqueline Kennedy…
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A Secret Agent’s Pride
by John Lisle
Wcag Heading The Dirty Tricks Department reveals the untold story…
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The Feather Wars
by James H. McCommons
From the time the United States was founded, early Americans assumed that…
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Milena and Margarete: A Love Story in Ravensbrück
by Gwen Strauss
From the moment they met in 1940 in the Ravensbrück concentration camp, Milena…
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Once There Was a Town
by Jane Ziegelman
Described as an "animated tapestry" by The Wall Street Journal, Jane Ziegelman's Once…
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The Escapes of David George and the Stories We Tell About Slavery
by Gregory E. O'Malley
by Gregory O'Malley When most people think of North American slavery, they most often think of…
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The Great Abolitionist
by Stephen Puleo
The Great Abolitionist is the first major biography of Charles Sumner to be published…
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Falling in Love with Texas’ Worst Town
by Joe Pappalardo
From a wrestler with cauliflower ears to ill-used dance hall girls to everyday…
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I Told You So!
by Matt Kaplan
From Darwin to Pasteur to modern-day scientists, Matt Kaplan's I Told You So!…
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Five History Books Coming This March!
From society belles teaming up with gun manufacturers to save America's birds in The Feather Wars…
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