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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

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

New Books to Fall for: October 2025

September 30, 2025

How Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Wrote In Secret In The Gulag

January 20, 2021

The Bakersfield Arch

Bakersfield Arch

January 19, 2021

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The Bakersfield Arch, at the old Bakersfield Inn has endured for nearly seventy years, as a landmark of Bakersfield. It was built at a cost […]

‘Cocaine Hippos’ Have Ecologists In Colombia Worried

January 19, 2021

The History Behind the Mystery: The St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre

January 19, 2021