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Warhead

Featured Excerpt: Warhead

October 7, 2025

Warhead analyzes the new science behind warfare

Dalas Texans

Featured Excerpt: A Big Mess in Texas

October 6, 2025

by David Fleming In A Big Mess in Texas, David Fleming reveals the incredible, untold true story of the 1952 Dallas Texans—the most dysfunctional team in the craziest season in NFL history. Read on for a featured excerpt. The NFL? Have You Gone Completely Crazy? IN A VOICE DESCRIBED AS A PARTLY MUFFLED ROAR, Clarence […]

Women in orchestra

The Band Played on at Auschwitz

October 3, 2025

Author Anne Sebba shares with The History Reader the horrifying story of the 45 women forced to play music in an Auschwitz concentration camp orchestra.

Berlin Wall

Featured Excerpt: Confronting Evil

October 2, 2025

by Bill O’Reilly and Josh Hammer An instant New York Times bestseller, Confronting Evil by Bill O’Reilly and Josh Hammer is a dramatic face-off with the good, evil, and the worst people who ever lived. Read on for a featured excerpt focusing on Vladimir Putin. Chapter Eleven: Vladimir Putin Dresden, East Germany December 5, 1989 […]

New Books to Fall for: October 2025

September 30, 2025

We’ve fallen hard for these history books publishing this October. From Pulitzer Prize finalist Siddharth Kara’s The Zorg, the heartbreaking story about the slave ship that sparked the U.K.’s abolitionist movement, to Tom Clavin’s Running Deep, the true story of the deadliest submarine in WWII, grab a cup of apple cider and immerse yourself in […]

How Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Wrote In Secret In The Gulag

January 20, 2021

The Soviet Union waged its war on the written and spoken word, it was too dangerous. As Pol Pot’s genocidal dictatorship put it, farmers were […] ...

The Bakersfield Arch

Bakersfield Arch

January 19, 2021

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The Bakersfield Arch, at the old Bakersfield Inn has endured for nearly seventy years, as a landmark of Bakersfield. It was built at a cost […] ...

‘Cocaine Hippos’ Have Ecologists In Colombia Worried

January 19, 2021

Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar was worth nearly 25 billion dollars thanks to his successful cocaine empire in the 1980s. Pablo was known for two […] ...

The History Behind the Mystery: The St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre

January 19, 2021

by Kate Mosse The television series The Crown, written by Peter Morgan, inspired by the history of the reign of Queen Elizabeth II from 1947 […] ...