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The Island Behind the Island: Real Life Inspiration for Trouble Island
Suspense author Sharon Short shares the rich history behind Middle Island, the real-life location that inspired her new novel, Trouble Island. Middle Island, Lake Eerie, Ontario,...
Call for Papers: Sensory History
Process invites proposals and submissions for an upcoming series on sensory history. We are open to a variety of themes relating to sensory history as both a methodology and a...

Silver Wedding
by Lydia Reeder Harriot Kezia Hunt, from a 1910 publication. (Public domain, Wikimedia Images.) For two days, on June 27 and 28, 1860, Dr. Harriot Kezia Hunt’s Boston home teemed...

The History Reader: 2024 Holiday Gift Guide
by The History Reader Shopping for any history-loving friends? Below is our holiday gift guide with our favorite books of 2024! The Cold Crematorium by József Debreczeni First...

Featured Excerpt: Four Against the West
Four Against the West by Joe Pappalardo is a thrilling true saga of legendary Texas figure Judge Roy Bean and his brothers―and their violent adventures in Wild West America. Read...

Featured Excerpt: Her Lotus Year
The Duchess of Windsor. Attributed to Angela Laviosa. Courtesy of Wikipedia. In Her Lotus Year: China, the Roaring Twenties, and the Making of Wallis Simpson, New York Times...

Featured Excerpt: Resist
AUGUST 31, 2006. JENA, LOUISIANA. Example of a hanging tree in Dallas, Texas. Photo taken by Phoebe L. Friedman. In the morning light, three nooses hung ominously from a giant...