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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 […]

A Tour of the Belasco Theatre

April 13, 2021

by Mariah Fredericks It’s always wonderful when a novel becomes a cheap excuse to do a deep dive into a subject near and dear to […] ...

The Escape of the Nine

April 12, 2021

by Gwen Strauss The Nine follows the true story of author Gwen Strauss’s great aunt Hélène Podliasky, who led a band of nine female resistance fighters […] ...

The Philadelphia: Our Most Evocative National Relic

April 9, 2021

by Jack Kelly I have traveled to Revolutionary-era battlefields and forts. I’ve examined countless eighteenth-century muskets, uniforms, swords, and shoe buckles. I’ve looked at the […] ...

Franz Jägerstätter Is The Most Famous German Conscientious Objector In History

April 8, 2021

A conscientious objector is an individual who has “claimed the right to refuse to perform military service on the grounds of freedom of thought, conscience, or religion.” The most […] ...