History Project

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the American past and present. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post NPR Marie Claire In...

A chorus of extraordinary voices comes together to tell one of history’s great epics: the four-hundred-year journey of African Americans from 1619 to the present—edited by Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist, and Keisha N. Blain, author of Set the World on Fire. The story...

This book traces the history of the Manhattan Project, from the first glimmerings of the possibility of such a catastrophic weapon to the aftermath of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It profiles the architects of the bomb, including J. Robert Oppenheimer, and how they tried to reconcile their personal feelings with their ambition as scientists. It looks at the role of the politicians and it includes first-hand accounts of those who experienced the effects of the bombings.

Unveiling the Secrets. Exposing the Truth. Beneath the surface of world events, beyond what we were taught in history books, lies a hidden world of covert operations, secret government projects, and classified missions that shaped the course of history. “DECLASSIFIED” takes you on an investigative journey through the shadowy corridors of power, uncovering the astonishing true stories of the most enigmatic and ethically questionable government projects in modern history. From the mind-altering experiments of Project MKUltra, to the sinister tactics of COINTELPRO, to the audacious plans ...

Nathaniel Ichabod Lampley woke up late one morning, remembering he’d forgotten something—a school project requiring a diorama of three animals in their natural habitats. In a rush to not be late to school… again… he cobbles together his project: stuffed animals from a neglected toy chest, his sister’s crayons, and a Star Battles Trilogy shoebox. What follows is an unraveling of misfortunes.

If Cotton Could Talk," is a civil war era historical fiction novel about 19th-century slave life in the South. You will be introduced to a cast of characters; Black mothers and fathers who are fearless, smart, and devoted to family and justice. Heroes and heroines whose leadership gave enslaved people hope. But before freedom comes, they must survive other slaves who prove to be untrustworthy. At the same time ruthless, hostile, hateful men are determined to keep the status quo. Pre-Civil War, 1850, enslaved people could sense that their lives were going to change. Slaves reasoned that they...

Experience the tense WWII history of a secret crash program to build the atomic bomb before Nazi Germany could. This gripping narrative transports you into the hidden laboratories of the twentieth century, where obscure nuclear physics experiments rapidly morphed into a frantic military...

Stargate Project Declassified: The Secret History of America's Psychic Spy Program and Remote Viewing Experiments What if the U.S. government secretly funded a psychic spy program for over two decades? Stargate Project Declassified pulls back the curtain on one of the most controversial and fascinating chapters in Cold War intelligence history — a top-secret initiative to harness extrasensory perception (ESP) and remote viewing for military and intelligence use. From the classified laboratories of the CIA and Defense Intelligence Agency to the minds of trained psychic operatives, this ...

Step into the tense, high-stakes race to build the first atomic bomb before Nazi Germany alters global history forever. Ideal for history buffs seeking a gripping commute, this narrative transforms abstract physics and wartime terror into an urgent, suspenseful thriller of human ingenuity...

Since the early days of human warfare, which may date back to the Stone Age, combatants have sought to gain an advantage through the acquisition of secret information. With the growth of technology, a parallel advantage was sought through the application of numerous types of torture. In the 19th century, the concept of manipulation was added to military tactics, an attempt to influence the minds of assassins, double agents, and world leaders alike to act against their natures.

When two Stanford graduate students set out to create a new kind of cigarette that wouldn’t kill them, they didn’t foresee all the obstacles that lay ahead — or the powerful forces their invention would unleash. Nearly 10 years after the launch of the JUUL, Backfired: The Vaping Wars asks: Could e-cigarettes have been the solution to one of the world’s most pressing public health problems—or was this technology doomed to introduce a whole new generation to nicotine, and end up perpetuating an intractable addiction?

ADHD may be the defining diagnosis of our time. According to the latest data, more than 10 percent of American children (that’s 7.1 million kids) have been diagnosed with ADHD. And the number of stimulant prescriptions for adults in their 30s has shot up nearly threefold since 2012. In recent years, this explosion in demand has combined with other factors to create a widespread stimulant shortage in the US. In the second installment of Backfired, cohosts Leon Neyfakh and Arielle Pardes look at the unintended consequences of the ADHD industry, and trace the surprising path that brought us here.

What if everything you thought you knew about human history… was a lie? There’s a reason you’ve always sensed something deeper—something missing from the official story of humanity. Step into an electrifying journey that connects the dots between ancient gods, extraterrestrial engineers, suppressed knowledge, and your own divine potential—waiting to be remembered in a Matrix-controlled world. In this book, you’ll uncover: ✨ The hidden agenda behind ancient civilizations and their “gods” ✨ How our DNA may have been engineered by alien beings ✨ The real role of the Great...

The definitive refutation of the New York Times’ 1619 Project, this volume includes original essays, lectures, and interviews with historians. Topics addressed include the complex development of slavery in the New World, the American Revolution, the sectional crisis over slavery and the Civil War, the struggle for social equality in the 20th century, and the class politics of racial identity in the present.

Project OXCART: The Untold Story of Area 51 (CIA Area 51 Chronicles – Book 6) By TD Barnes The fastest spy plane ever built. The birth of stealth. The CIA’s most secretive aviation project. In the depths of the Cold War, the CIA faced a critical challenge—the revolutionary U-2 spy plane had become vulnerable to Soviet air defenses. In response, the CIA’s Directorate of Science and Technology launched Project OXCART, an ambitious effort to develop a reconnaissance aircraft that could fly higher, faster, and with stealth capabilities never seen before. The result was the A-12 ...

A myth-shattering exposé of America’s nuclear weapons. Famed investigative journalist Eric Schlosser digs deep to uncover secrets about the management of America’s nuclear arsenal. A groundbreaking account of accidents, near misses, extraordinary heroism, and technological breakthroughs...

The future has amazing technology. Our alien allies have magic. Together, we are building a training system to teach the best of humanity to go to the stars. But the training is monumentally expensive. Stephanie Morgana is a genius, she just doesn't know it. The Artificial Intelligence which runs the Virtual World is charged with testing Stephanie, a task it has never performed before. The Earth and their allies may never be the same again.

The Archangels (CIA Area 51 Chronicles – Book 2) By TD Barnes The race for the ultimate spy plane. The birth of stealth technology. The CIA’s covert war at Area 51. As Cold War tensions escalate in the 1960s, the CIA faces an urgent crisis. The Soviets have shot down a U-2 spy plane over Russia, exposing U.S. reconnaissance operations. The Cuban Missile Crisis threatens nuclear war, and the conflict in Vietnam intensifies. With intelligence gaps widening, the CIA needs a revolutionary aircraft to replace the vulnerable U-2. In the secrecy of Area 51, the newly formed Directorate of ...

What if the most powerful intelligence apparatus in the world admitted there were forces it could not understand and could not control?For twenty-three years, the U.S. government funded a clandestine unit of "psychic spies" tasked with performing the impossible. Project Stargate was the final evolution of a series of secret programs—Scanate, Gondola Wish, and Grill Flame—designed to determine if human consciousness could be used to gather actionable intelligence against America's adversaries.Inside this declassified history, you will discover: The "Eight-Martini" Successes: The shocking...

We thought we knew the story of the twentieth century. For many in the West, after the two world conflicts and the long cold war, the verdict was clear: democratic values had prevailed over dictatorship. But if the twentieth century meant the triumph of liberalism, as many intellectuals proclaimed, why have the era's darker impulses—ethnic nationalism, racist violence, and populist authoritarianism—revived?