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Ship of Death: A Terrifying and Implacable Enemy

by Catharine Arnold

WCAG Heading In the final part of her Ship of Death essay, Catharine…
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Lessons from the AIDS Epidemic

by Jonathan D. Quick, MD, with Bronwyn Fryer

WCAG Heading The 2020 outbreak of coronavirus has…
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Ship of Death: Rates on the Rise

by Catharine Arnold

WCAG Heading With the death toll rising from Spanish flu, burials at sea…
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Ship of Death: Spanish Flu on the High Seas

by Catharine Arnold

WCAG Heading As conditions worsen on the USS Leviathan in October of 1918,…
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Ship of Death: “We Must Go At Any Cost”

by Catharine Arnold

WCAG Heading Revisiting the American soldiers aboard the USS Leviathan, Catharine Arnold discusses…
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Ship of Death: The Tragic Tale of the USS Leviathan

SSLeviathan

by Catharine Arnold

WCAG Heading In three successive waves, from spring 1918 to summer 1919, the…
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The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918: An Indicator of Things to Come?

by Philip Jett

WCAG Heading It was 1918 and there was a killer on the loose.…
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Spanish Flu

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

Auschwitz gate

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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