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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 […]

Father of Invention: Washington’s Support for Eighteenth-Century Innovators

February 22, 2021

by John Berlau George Washington: accomplished general, famous statesman…business innovator? Most people don’t know that Washington was one of the country’s first true entrepreneurs, responsible […] ...

2021 JAH African American History Index

February 22, 2021

In honor of Black History Month, we at the Journal of American History are pleased to re-release the JAH African American History Index. First published in 2019, the index includes […] ...

Phryne Was Put On Trial And Acquitted Based On Her Amazing Body

February 19, 2021

Phryne was an ancient Greek prostitute, one with wealthy and influential clients. This wasn’t her real name, instead, it was a nickname given to her […] ...

Did English Sailors Drink Lord Nelson’s Body?

February 19, 2021

Did English sailors drink the spirits from the cask that the Lord Nelson was stored in while en route to England for his funeral? The […] ...