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| Title | Date published | ||
| What Is The Kennedy Curse? | 2026-04-02 | ||
| The Trail of Tears | The Frontier | 2026-03-30 | ||
| Rise and Fall of the Shakers | 2026-03-26 | ||
| The Texas Rangers | The Frontier | 2026-03-23 | ||
| The Battle of Fredericksburg | 2026-03-19 | ||
| Murder on the California Trail | The Frontier | 2026-03-16 | ||
| America's Bloodiest Day: Battle of Antietam | 2026-03-12 | ||
| How Wild Was the Wild West? | The Frontier | 2026-03-09 | ||
| What Did FDR Get Wrong? | 2026-03-05 | ||
| Life and Death on the Oregon Trail | The Frontier | 2026-03-02 | ||
| The Making of Malcolm X | 2026-02-26 | ||
| Darkest Hours: Origins of Slavery | 2026-02-23 | ||
| Rodeo: An All American History? | 2026-02-19 | ||
| Darkest Hours: The Kent State Shootings | 2026-02-16 | ||
| The Monroe Doctrine | 2026-02-12 | ||
| Darkest Hours: The Great Depression | 2026-02-09 | ||
| Battle of Baton Rouge: Civil War on the Mississippi | 2026-02-05 | ||
| Darkest Hours: Brother Against Brother | 2026-02-02 | ||
| The Annexation of Hawaiʻi | 2026-01-29 | ||
| America's Worst General | 2026-01-26 |