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Celebrating Black History Month in 2025

Let’s honor the remarkable Black Americans throughout history with our favorite books. From the 19th century to the Civil Rights Movement to present day, our reading list for Black History Month is one you don’t want to miss.  Bending Toward Justice The story of the...

Featured Excerpt: A Matter of Complexion by Tess Chakkalakal

Leaving Fayetteville Charles W. Chesnutt. (Public domain, Wikimedia Images.) On October 7, 1880, The Raleigh Signal, a Republican newspaper published by the Republican State Committee of North Carolina, introduced Chesnutt to the public. Hailing Chesnutt’s “rare...

Featured Excerpt: Realm of Ice and Sky

View of Smeerenberg, Spitzbergen, Norway. A photomechanical print taken between 1890 and 1900. Public Domain. Realm of Ice and Sky by two-time National Outdoor Book Award-winning author Buddy Levy is a thrilling narrative of polar exploration via airship―and the men...
Celebrating Black History Month in 2025

Celebrating Black History Month in 2025

Let’s honor the remarkable Black Americans throughout history with our favorite books. From the 19th century to the Civil Rights Movement to present day, our reading list for Black History Month is one you don’t want to miss.  Bending Toward Justice The story of the...

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Featured Excerpt: Realm of Ice and Sky

Featured Excerpt: Realm of Ice and Sky

View of Smeerenberg, Spitzbergen, Norway. A photomechanical print taken between 1890 and 1900. Public Domain. Realm of Ice and Sky by two-time National Outdoor Book Award-winning author Buddy Levy is a thrilling narrative of polar exploration via airship―and the men...

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Featured Excerpt: A Rage to Conquer

Featured Excerpt: A Rage to Conquer

The Battle of Actium from The Story of Caesar and Cleopatra by Justus van Egmont. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. In A Rage to Conquer, award-winning author Michael Walsh brings history to life as he considers a group of courageous commanders and the battles they waged...

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Adventure Research at the Top of the World

Adventure Research at the Top of the World

Author Buddy Levy shares his chilly experience in Ny Ålesund, Norway, where he gathered research materials for his book, Realm of Ice and Sky: Triumph, Tragedy, and History’s Greatest Arctic Rescue. Author Buddy Levy at the top of the world. Wind whips my face as I...

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Introduction to Eliot Stein’s Custodians of Wonder

Introduction to Eliot Stein’s Custodians of Wonder

In Custodians of Wonder, Eliot Stein takes a vivid look at 10 astonishing people who are maintaining some of the world’s oldest and rarest cultural traditions. Read on for an introductory excerpt from the book. A late 19th century example of Burano lace. Courtesty of...

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Call for Papers: Sensory History

Process invites proposals and submissions for an upcoming series on sensory history. We are open to a variety of themes relating to sensory history as both a methodology and a field and its intersections with various subfields of U.S. history, including histories of...

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Silver Wedding

Silver Wedding

by Lydia Reeder Harriot Kezia Hunt, from a 1910 publication. (Public domain, Wikimedia Images.) For two days, on June 27 and 28, 1860, Dr. Harriot Kezia Hunt’s Boston home teemed with activity. Housemaids arranged dozens of flowers—roses, lilies, chrysanthemums,...

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The History Reader: 2024 Holiday Gift Guide

The History Reader: 2024 Holiday Gift Guide

by The History Reader Shopping for any history-loving friends? Below is our holiday gift guide with our favorite books of 2024! The Cold Crematorium by József Debreczeni First published in Hungarian in 1950, The Cold Crematorium was never translated into a world...

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Featured Excerpt: Four Against the West

Featured Excerpt: Four Against the West

Four Against the West by Joe Pappalardo is a thrilling true saga of legendary Texas figure Judge Roy Bean and his brothers―and their violent adventures in Wild West America. Read on for a chapter excerpt from Four Against the West that focuses on the legendary...

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Featured Excerpt: Her Lotus Year

Featured Excerpt: Her Lotus Year

The Duchess of Windsor. Attributed to Angela Laviosa. Courtesy of Wikipedia. In Her Lotus Year: China, the Roaring Twenties, and the Making of Wallis Simpson, New York Times bestselling author Paul French examines a controversial and revealing period in the early life...

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Featured Excerpt: Resist

Featured Excerpt: Resist

AUGUST 31, 2006. JENA, LOUISIANA. Example of a hanging tree in Dallas, Texas. Photo taken by Phoebe L. Friedman. In the morning light, three nooses hung ominously from a giant oak tree’s leafy branches outside Jena High School. There had been an unspoken rule. A...

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Who Was the Real Socrates?

Who Was the Real Socrates?

 Illustration of Socrates, in a basket, based on Aristophanes’s The Clouds. Was Socrates a real person? is one of the most googled questions about perhaps the most important philosopher in history. Socrates’s existence as a historical figure is, however, universally...

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Call for Papers: Histories of Aging and Elderly Lives

Process invites proposals and submissions for an upcoming series on the elderly in U.S. history. While there is a vast array of histories relating to youth culture, children, and young adults in the United States, there are fewer comparable studies on the history of...

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