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Unknown History: A Battle of Wits in Post-War Berlin

by Giles Milton

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Unknown History: Churchill’s Iron Curtain

by Giles Milton

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Unknown History: The Great Berlin Power Struggle

by Giles Milton

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Unknown History: Russia’s Secret Revolutionaries

by Giles Milton

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Unknown History: Sleeping with the Enemy

by Giles Milton

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Unknown History: The Americans Arrive in Berlin

by Giles Milton

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Unknown History: Berlin Turns Red

by Giles Milton

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Unknown History: The Colonel Who Went to War

by Giles Milton

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Unknown History: A User’s Guide to the Branches of U.S. Government

by Nick Capodice & Hannah McCarthy; illustrated by Tom Toro

The three branches of the U.S. federal government—executive, legislative, and judicial—keep each other in line through…
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Unknown History: A User’s Guide to Getting Involved in Democracy—Petitions and Protests

by Nick Capodice & Hannah McCarthy; illustrated by Tom Toro

How do you get involved in U.S. Democracy? Here’s a crash course on next-level civic participation.…
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Unknown History

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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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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Featured Excerpt: A Biography of a Mountain

Mt. Rushmore

by Matthew Davis

In A Biography of a Mountain, Matthew Davis shares a  comprehensive narrative history…
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