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Featured Excerpt: Warhead

October 7, 2025

Warhead analyzes the new science behind warfare

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 […]

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.

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 […]

La Milagrosa, Havana’s Miraculous One

September 30, 2025

by Elena Sheppard Elena Sheppard, author of The Eternal Forest, joins us to discuss the myth of La Milagrosa. The Eternal Forest masterfully weaves Cuban…

Featured Excerpt: Brady vs. Belichick

September 18, 2025

by Gary Myers Read an excerpt of BRADY VS. BELICHICK, a unique and unparalleled look into the nature and relationship of two of the pillars…

Compelling Reads for Constitution Day

September 17, 2025

Each year on September 17, we celebrate the anniversary of the ratification of the United States Constitution. Today, we bring you our favorite reads that…

Cape Coast Castle’s Role in the Transatlantic Slave Trade

September 16, 2025

by Siddharth Kara Pulitzer Prize-finalist Siddharth Kara visited the Gold Coast in Africa while doing research on the British slave trade for his book, The…