(history in The Headlines)

Historians have long been engaged in telling the story of the struggle for the vote. In the wake of recent contested elections, the suppression of the vote has returned to the headlines, as awareness of the deep structural barriers to the ballot, particularly for poor, black, and Latino voters, has called attention to the historical roots of issues related to voting access.

For decades, UFOs have been the domain of science fiction and conspiracy theories. But not anymore. Over the past few years, the United States government has begun taking sightings of unknown objects by members of our military seriously, and subjecting them to further study. Featuring first-person accounts by military eyewitnesses, government insiders and UFO experts, this special offers an update to HISTORY’s groundbreaking Unidentified series, and traces how we got here, and what a government investigation into 144 recent sightings can tell us about what these mysterious objects are and where they come from.

In riveting prose, In the Midst of Civilized Europe repositions the pogroms as a defining moment of the twentieth century.