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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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Thomas Jefferson on Slavery and Abolition

Presidential

by Kevin R. C. Gutzman

WCAG Heading The Jeffersonians chronicles the lives, policy initiatives, and critical…
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Do We Believe in Equality?

by Michael A. Bellesiles

WCAG Heading One of my favorite stories from the long struggle for equality…
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The Soil Will Be Soaked with Blood

by Suzanne Mettler and Robert C. Lieberman

wcag heading wcag heading As the 1800 presidential election…
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Revolutionary Brothers: “Aux Armes!”

by Tom Chaffin

WCAG Heading The fifth and final excerpt from Revolutionary Brothers takes place in…
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Revolutionary Brothers: “Flattered by the Command”

by Tom Chaffin

WCAG Heading In the first of five excerpts from Revolutionary Brothers, Tom Chaffin…
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Thomas Jefferson: Revolutionary

WCAG Headingby Kevin R. C. Gutzman Thomas Jefferson’s influence on American political history outstrips that of…
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Jeffersonian Federalism and the Origins of State Rights

WCAG Headingby Kevin R. C. Gutzman Thomas Jefferson’s name is most commonly associated in American popular…
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Ho Chi Minh and Thomas Jefferson

WCAG HeadingWCAG HeadingWCAG HeadingBy Susan Dunn In September 1945, hundreds of thousands of people jammed the…
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Thomas Jefferson

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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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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