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Featured Excerpt: A Big Mess in Texas
October 6, 2025
| History
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 […]
The Band Played on at Auschwitz
October 3, 2025
| History
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.
Featured Excerpt: Confronting Evil
October 2, 2025
| History
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
| History
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 […]
The Pinkertons in Myth and History
October 25, 2024
| History
William A. Pinkerton with railroad special agents Pat Connell (left) and Sam Finley (right) from the Library of Congress. Even if you’ve only watched a […] ...
I Am a Respectable Person
October 15, 2024
| History
by Jack Kelly Elizabeth Jennings Graham. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons. “We are not going back,” is a refrain heard in this year’s election campaign. […] ...
Major League Baseball’s Historical Quest to Entice Middle- and Upper-Class Fans to the Park
October 15, 2024
| History
Baseball has never been particularly popular in the United Kingdom, despite numerous efforts by American businesspeople over the last nearly 150 years to make it so.