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Summer History Reading: August 2025
Looking for your next history read? Check out some of our favorite new history books publishing in August 2025. Rope A unique and compelling adventure through the history of rope...
Rope’s Role in Colonial America’s Tarring and Feathering
by Tim Queeney Tim Queeney, author of Rope: How a Bundle of Twisted Fibers Became the Backbone of Civilization, shares with The History Reader how rope played a pivotal role in...
Richard Nixon’s Call for a Cosmic Hoedown
by Jeffrey Kluger Few authors have had as big an impact on space journalism as Jeffrey Kluger. His book Lost Moon, co-authored with Astronaut James Lovell, was the basis for Tom...
To Look Them in the Face: Bunker Hill 250
by Jack Kelly As part of the ongoing celebration of the birth of the United States 250 years ago and the sacrifices that soldiers made to create the United States, author Jack...
The Red Baron and Early Flyboys During WWI
by Tom Clavin To celebrate the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, which ended WWI on June 28, 1919, author Tom Clavin shares with The History Reader the story of the Red Baron...
Hot History Reads: July 2025
Looking for your next history read? Check out some of our favorite new history books publishing in July 2025. People Who Eat Darkness Now with a new afterword. Lucie...
This Is a Pretty Country We Live In: The Trial of Anne Royall
by Jack Kelly In honor of Anne Royall’s birthday (June 11, 1769), author Jack Kelly shares with The History Reader her story as one of the pioneering female journalists in...