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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 […]

Mississippi Murder Mystery

March 22, 2023

by Tom Clavin On March 17, 1886, one of the most shocking mass murders in American history took place—one that remains unsolved today. Let’s travel […] ...

The Absurdity Of Caligula’s Reign: Why A Horse Was Made A Consul

March 21, 2023

The Roman Empire is known for its great accomplishments, impressive architecture, and powerful leaders. However, one of its most infamous leaders was Caligula, who reigned […] ...

An Archive of Anticolonialism and State Surveillance: Tracing Early South Asian American History

March 17, 2023

In September 2012 in Stockton, California, the gurdwara, a house of worship for people of the Sikh faith, commemorated its one-hundred-year anniversary with the opening […] ...

Men on White Horses

March 16, 2023

by Susan Ronald There’s a chapter in my new book, Hitler’s Aristocrats, titled “Men on White Horses” which I feared might be cut by my […] ...