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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 […]

Heard Round the World: A War Begins

April 17, 2023

by Jack Kelly April 19th is Patriots’ Day in Massachusetts. It marks the anniversary of the battles at Lexington and Concord, which touched off the […] ...

What’s in the March Issue of the Journal of American History?

April 17, 2023

The March issue of the Journal of American History is now available online and in print. Included are articles by Emmanuelle Perez Tisserant, William Robert Billups, […] ...

Writing History for a Popular Audience: A Round Table Discussion

April 12, 2023

This post originally appeared in the August 2016 issue of The American Historian. Most historians would love for their work to reach a wide, non-academic […] ...

Caresse

April 11, 2023

by Anne de Courcy Every now and then, when writing a biography or social history, a character crops up who is so intriguing that one […] ...