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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 […]

What’s in the September Issue of the Journal of American History?

October 13, 2022

The September issue of the Journal of American History is now available online and in print. The issue is centered around the history of immigration […] ...

Leopold and Loeb: The Original Crime of the Century

September 29, 2022

by Greg King and Penny Wilson A grim, glowering fortress loomed in the darkness, bathed in the glow of arc lights shadowing its battlements and […] ...

Fashion Goes Back to the Future

September 29, 2022

by Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell Issey Miyake, the Japanese fashion designer who died in August 2022, was known for the finely pleated garments he first introduced in […] ...

Histories of Abortion in the United States

September 21, 2022

The Journal of American History compiled the following index for readers who would like to learn more about the history of abortion, reproductive rights, and Roe […] ...