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01/13/2026

In CHARLIE AND ME, investigative journalist Mary Neiswender shares for the first time what it was like to be the only reporter Charles Manson communicated with during his famous 1970 murder trial.

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01/08/2026

PREDICTING THE WINNER by Ira Chinoy is the winner of the 2025 Eugenia M. Palmegiano Prize in the History of Journalism! 🎉

Those attending , don't miss the awards ceremony tonight from 7-8 p.m. CST in the Palmer House Hilton's State Ballroom!

The American Historical Association is pleased to announce the winners of its 2025 prizes.

12/30/2025

AT THE BASE OF THE GIANT'S THROAT by Anthony R. Palumbi dives into the history of dam-building in the United States as natural waterscapes have been replaced with engineered environments and the bone-dry West became America’s produce aisle.

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12/29/2025

Excerpt: SCARLETT by Leslie Stainton

From a descendant of the enslaving Scarletts of Georgia, this searing account of one family’s complicity in slavery and its violent aftermath unravels the lies of Margaret Mitchell’s GONE WITH THE WIND. https://wp.me/p4J9AE-imV

12/26/2025

When Jews really did wage a ‘war on Christmas’: Scott D. Seligman's new book recalls “The Great Christmas Boycott of 1906,” when immigrants fought for the separation of church and state in public schools.

A new book recalls the “The Great Christmas Boycott of 1906,” when immigrants fought for the separation of church and state in public schools.

12/25/2025

Winner of the 2025 National Federation Press of Women Award, CHASING CYNTHIANA by Lynn Hamilton challenges the wine industry’s complacency when it comes to American vintages.

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12/23/2025

THE GAS AND FLAME MEN by Jim Leeke is the first full account of Major League ballplayers who served in the Chemical Warfare Service during World War I.

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12/23/2025

"Reese’s new book is an illuminating social-justice memoir focused on crime and the system built to contain it," writes Bill Conroy for the North American Review.

There’s an old saying that a conservative becomes a liberal after being accused of a crime, and a liberal becomes a conservative after becoming the victim of a crime.

12/18/2025

BLUE HELMET by Edward H. Carpenter tells the story of a country, a conflict, and the institution of peacekeeping through the eyes of a senior American military officer working on the ground in one of the most dangerous countries on the planet.

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12/16/2025

PROBLEMATIC takes on the stereotype of the perpetually dissatisfied feminist. Too often feminist criticism has come to mean seeing only the bad elements of women-centric pop culture and never the good.

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12/11/2025

IF I CAN GET HOME THIS FALL by Tyler Alexander chronicles the epic story of Dan Mason, a white man who served in the Civil War as a soldier in the Sixth Vermont Infantry and as an officer in the Nineteenth U.S. Colored Troops.

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12/11/2025

"My Scarlett ancestors in Georgia enslaved at least 500 people—making them one of the largest enslavers in the United States. . .The story is anything but the cheerful fantasy Margaret Mitchell paints in GONE WITH THE WIND. Hence the title of my book. It tells the other side of Mitchell’s fiction," shares Leslie Stainton, author of SCARLETT.

Read more in her interview with Deborah Kalb: https://bit.ly/4rSQDn9