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Featured Excerpt: Warhead

October 7, 2025

Warhead analyzes the new science behind warfare

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 […]

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.

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 […]

A Time for Every Man to Stir

September 1, 2025

by Jack Kelly To celebrate Labor Day, author Jack Kelly shares with The History Reader why Thomas Paine, who famously penned the lines, “These are the…

Back to School History Reads: September 2025

August 26, 2025

Looking for your next history read? Need a book for back to school season? Check out some of our favorite new history books publishing in…

National Aviation Day Must-Reads

August 19, 2025

Each year on August 19th, America celebrates National Aviation Day. Today, we bring you our favorite books that honor aviation history and technology. We hope…

20th Century Queer Women of Means

August 19, 2025

by Cathy Pegau Cathy Pegau, author of A Murderous Business: A Mystery, shares with The History Reader how some queer women of means in the United States…