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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 […]
A Secret Agent’s Pride
March 7, 2023
| History
by John Lisle The Dirty Tricks Department by John Lisle reveals the untold story of the OSS Research and Development Branch and its role in […] ...
To the Shores of Tripoli
March 2, 2023
| History
by Tom Clavin When one thinks of America’s early naval heroes, John Paul Jones and Oliver Hazard Perry usually come to mind. But another was […] ...
Flying Into Hell
February 28, 2023
| History
During WWII, Frank Murphy flew twenty-one daylight combat missions with the Mighty Eighth. The odds of returning safely were three to one against. Below is […] ...
On âMobility and Sovereignty: The Nineteenth-Century Origins of Immigration Restrictionâ
February 28, 2023
| History
In the September 2022 special issue of the Journal of American History, Kevin Kennyâs article, âMobility and Sovereignty: The Nineteenth-Century Origins of Immigration Restriction,â powerfully […] ...