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Calling All Baseball Fans: Books to Read for Opening Day
By The History Reader Major League Baseball’s Opening Day has long been a symbol of rebirth for baseball fans, a day where the previous season’s slate is wiped clean as records...
Here’s the Catch: Pathway to the Majors
By Ron Swoboda In Here’s the Catch, right fielder Ron Swoboda tells the story of the Mets’ miraculous 1969 World Series win, the incredible season leading up to that moment, the...
Inside the March Journal of American History
The March 2021 issue of the JAH is now available online for subscribers. Three outstanding articles, previewed below, anchor this month’s issue, including Dylan C. Penningroth’s...
The New King: George I of Great Britain
by Peter Ackroyd In the following excerpt from Revolution, Peter Ackroyd transports readers to England in 1714, where Prince George of Germany is about to be crowned King George...
Massive Dehumanization Led To Mass Killing In WW2
When the war ended in 1945 Stalin’s Red Army didn’t magically call it quits and head back home to the East. They used the opportunity to seize new land, tons of it. One of the...
2021 JAH Women’s History Index
In honor of Women’s History Month, we are pleased to reissue the JAH Women’s History Index. First published in 2020, the index includes every article of women’s history printed...
The Watergate Girl: Joining the Team
by Jill Wine-Banks Obstruction of justice, the specter of impeachment, sexism at work, shocking revelations: Jill Wine-Banks takes us inside her trial by fire in The Watergate...