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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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An American Hero Lost to History
Flee North by Scott Shane is a riveting account of the extraordinary abolitionist, liberator, and writer…
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Africatown and the Last Slave Ship
by Nick Tabor
Wcag Heading Nick Tabor’s Africatown charts the fraught history of America from those who were…
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Thomas Jefferson on Slavery and Abolition
by Kevin R. C. Gutzman
WCAG Heading The Jeffersonians chronicles the lives, policy initiatives, and critical…
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Robert Smalls Sails out of Slavery
WCAG Headingby Cate Lineberry As the waves rocked the Planter, Robert Smalls proudly presented the guns…
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Frederick Douglass: A Life and Times
WCAG Heading by James A. Colaiaco WCAG Heading Frederick Douglass On Monday, July 5, 1852, Frederick…
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Jefferson’s “Scientific” Declaration of Independence
WCAG Heading WCAG Heading WCAG Heading by Tom Shachtman Before Thomas Jefferson began to write a…
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Shedding the Mythology of the Good Slaveholder
WCAG Heading WCAG Heading WCAG Heading By Chris Tomlinson Tomlinson Hill is the stunning story of two…
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Featured Excerpt: JFK: Public, Private, Secret
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
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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