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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 […]

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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 […]

The Little-Known Women Who Helped Churchill Win the War

October 3, 2023

by Julia Kelly Whenever someone visiting London asks where they should go, I always recommend a trip to the Churchill War Rooms (CWR). Now a […] ...

Daniel Boone’s Last Days

September 26, 2023

by Tom Clavin On September 26, 1820, legendary frontiersman Daniel Boone died at the extraordinary age of 85. The following is an adapted excerpt from […] ...

Support the Troops: Gender and U.S. Civil-Military Relations During the “War on Terror”

September 26, 2023

During the early years of the “global war on terror,” the call to “support the troops” was ubiquitous in the United States. The yellow ribbon […] ...

I Hope You Are of Our Party: Fidelity and Betrayal

September 22, 2023

by Jack Kelly Shakespeare, of course, wrote acclaimed plays about history. But sometimes history takes the pen from the playwright’s hand and fashions a scenario […] ...