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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.

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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 […]

5 Books to Celebrate Women’s History Month

March 15, 2023

by The History Reader Women’s History Month is a time for us to take a moment to appreciate all the incredible achievements of women across […] ...

The Reports of Leonora Barry, Knight of Labor: Chronicling Women Workers in the Gilded Age

March 14, 2023

This piece is a response to our recent Call for Submissions: Histories of Labor in the U.S. For our submission guidelines, click here. The sweat […] ...

What Africatown Owes to the Harlem Renaissance

March 9, 2023

by Nick Tabor It’s hard to believe that when Zora Neale Hurston started on her book Barracoon, which would turn out to be one of […] ...

The Liberal Party of New York and Independent Labor Politics

March 8, 2023

This piece is a response to our recent Call for Submissions: Histories of Labor in the U.S. For our submission guidelines, click here. Many Americans […] ...