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Edith Wharton’s Guide to New York

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by Mariah Fredericks

WCAG Heading Mariah Fredericks’s new novel, The Wharton Plot, follows renowned novelist Edith Wharton…
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Not the Mother: The Relationship Between the Lindberghs and Betty Gow

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by Mariah Fredericks

Wcag Heading The kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh Jr. shocked the world in 1932.…
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The Sound of America in 1914

by Mariah Fredericks

WCAG Heading In 1914, the hot ticket on Broadway was On Trial, a play…
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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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The King of Ragtime

by Mariah Fredericks

WCAG Heading Author Mariah Fredericks sets the scene for her latest novel, Death…
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The History Behind the Mystery: Death of a New American

by Mariah Fredericks

WCAG Heading Around the age of 14, I started to fall in love…
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The History Behind the Mystery: A Death of No Importance

by Mariah Fredericks

WCAG Heading One of my favorite books as a kid was an illustrated chronicle…
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Featured Excerpt: Tom Paine’s War

Painting of Thomas Paine by Laurent Dabos. National Portrait Gallery (London). Public domain.

by Jack Kelly

In 1776, Tom Paine's words—and the determination of American patriots—allowed our nation to…
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Three New History Books to Read This January

January 2026 Upcoming History Books
With a new year comes a new set of history books publishing this month. Whether you've…
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Featured Excerpt: The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz

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by Anne Sebba

An instant USA Today bestseller, The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz …
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Featured Excerpt: JFK: Public, Private, Secret

Jackie Bouvier and John F. Kennedy married in Newport, Rhode Island, on September 12, 1953.

by J. Randy Taraborrelli

J. Randy Taraborrelli shares with The History Reader an excerpt from his…
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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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