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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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Featured Excerpt: Warhead

German tank occupying France during WWII 1940-1945

by Nicholas Wright

In his book, Warhead, Dr. Nicholas Wright, a leading neuroscientist and adviser to…
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Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz

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Cold Crematorium is the first English language edition of a lost memoir by Holocaust survivor József…
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Hold the Hill

by Tom Clavin

WCAG Heading The Last Hill by Bob Drury and yours truly covers the dramatic…
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Men on White Horses

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by Susan Ronald

WCAG Heading There’s a chapter in my new book, Hitler’s Aristocrats, titled “Men on White…
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Hitler’s Jewish Army

by Ellen Feldman

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D-Day: Bagpipes and Snipers

by Giles Milton

WCAG Heading Who was Shimi Lovat? And how did a flamboyant Scottish aristocrat…
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Who Was Father Charles Coughlin?

by Bradley Hart

WCAG Heading by Bradley W. Hart In November 1938, one of America’s most famous radio personalities…
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Who Was William Dudley Pelley and the Silver Legion?

by Bradley Hart

WCAG Heading In 1933, a former Hollywood screenwriter-turned-mystic named William Dudley Pelley made…
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A Judenrat’s Financial Triumph Over the Gestapo

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WCAG Headingby Michael Bornstein and Debbie Bornstein Holinstat It was March 1941. Nearly a year had…
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Nazis

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

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by Samuel Miller McDonald

In Progress: How One Idea Built Civilization and Now Threatens to Destroy…
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2025 Holiday Gift Guide

The History Reader 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

Maerten van Heemskerck - Panorama with the Abduction of Helen Amidst the Wonders of the Ancient World

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

Gemini 12 prime crew: Astronauts James A. Lovell Jr. (right), command pilot, and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., pilot.

by Jeffrey Kluger

On November 11, 1966, NASA launched Gemini 12, the last manned spaceflight in…
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Featured Excerpt: A Promise Delivered

Van Thomas Barfoot newly promoted US Army Lieutenant circa 1944.

by Ty Seidule and Connor Williams

In 2020, a bipartisan act of Congress mandated changing the…
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