Witness to History Books in Order
Witness to History contains 25 books, published between 2003 and 2022. The first book is Civil Rights (2003) and the newest is No Place for Saints: Mobs and Mormons in Jacksonian America (2022). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 25
- Published
- 2003–2022
- Pages on record
- 515 in 5 of 25 books
Witness to History is a history series of 25 books, published from 2003 to 2022. No single author is credited across it. Peter Charles Hoffer carries 3 titles, Erik R. Seeman, Sean Connolly, John R. Van Atta and Christopher Childers 2 each, and Brendan January, Daniel R. Mandell and Williamjames Hull Hoffer one apiece. Volumes in the listing include Civil Rights (2003), World War I (2003), World War II (2003), King Philip's War (2007), The Caning of Charles Sumner (2010), Bloodshed at Little Bighorn (2010), My Lai (2012) and No Place for Saints (2022). Subject headings include sources, race relations, civil rights movements and juvenile literature.
How many Witness to History books are there?
Witness to History has 25 books, released between 2003 and 2022.
Witness to History Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 25 Witness to History books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.
- 1The Huron-Wendat Feast of the Dead: Indian-European Encounters in Early North America– · confirmed 1/4––1/4
- 2Civil Rights2003 · 56 pages · confirmed 1/42003561/4
- 3World War I2003 · 56 pages · confirmed 1/42003561/4
- 4World War II2003 · 56 pages · confirmed 1/42003561/4
- 5King Philip's War: Colonial Expansion, Native Resistance, and the End of Indian Sovereignty2007 · confirmed 1/42007–1/4
- 6The Caning of Charles Sumner: Honor, Idealism, and the Origins of the Civil War2010 · confirmed 1/42010–1/4
- 7Bloodshed at Little Bighorn: Sitting Bull, Custer, and the Destinies of Nations2010 · confirmed 1/42010–1/4
- 8The Huron-Wendat Feast of the Dead: Indian-European Encounters in Early North America2011 · 163 pages · confirmed 1/420111631/4
- 9When Benjamin Franklin Met the Reverend Whitefield: Enlightenment, Revival, and the Power of the Printed Word2011 · confirmed 1/42011–1/4
- 10My Lai: An American Atrocity in the Vietnam War2012 · confirmed 1/42012–1/4
- 11Prelude to Revolution: The Salem Gunpowder Raid of 17752013 · confirmed 1/42013–1/4
- 12Blood on Steel: Chicago Steelworkers and the Strike of 19372014 · confirmed 1/42014–1/4
- 13Glorious Victory2015 · confirmed 1/42015–1/4
- 14Wolf by the Ears: The Missouri Crisis, 1819–18212015 · confirmed 1/42015–1/4
- 15Coxey's Army: Popular Protest in the Gilded Age2015 · confirmed 1/42015–1/4
- 17Hell Before Their Very Eyes2015 · confirmed 1/42015–1/4
- 18The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798: Testing the Constitution2016 · confirmed 1/42016–1/4
- 19The Fate of the Revolution: Virginians Debate the Constitution2016 · confirmed 1/42016–1/4
- 20Selma's Bloody Sunday: Protest, Voting Rights, and the Struggle for Racial Equality2016 · confirmed 1/42016–1/4
- 21John Quincy Adams and the Gag Rule, 1835–18502017 · confirmed 1/42017–1/4
- 22Charging Up San Juan Hill: Theodore Roosevelt and the Making of Imperial America2018 · confirmed 1/42018–1/4
- 23The Webster-Hayne Debate: Defining Nationhood in the Early American Republic2018 · 184 pages · confirmed 1/420181841/4
- 24The Webster-Hayne Debate: Defining Nationhood in the Early American Republic2018 · confirmed 1/42018–1/4
- 25No Place for Saints: Mobs and Mormons in Jacksonian America2022 · confirmed 1/42022–1/4
Where to start with Witness to History
Start with Civil Rights (2003), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Witness to History book?
No Place for Saints: Mobs and Mormons in Jacksonian America (2022) is the newest Witness to History book released so far.
Is there a new Witness to History book coming?
No next Witness to History book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Witness to History at a glance
- Paused
- No new Witness to History title has appeared for 4 years. The last was published in 2022.
- Release pace
- Witness to History books have appeared about one a year on average.
- Length
- 515 pages across the 5 of 25 books with a recorded length, a median of 56 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Witness to History books, 19 of 25, were published in the 2010s.
- Attribution
- Of the 25 titles, 3 are credited to Peter Charles Hoffer, 2 to Erik R. Seeman, 2 to Sean Connolly and 2 to John R. Van Atta. A further 15 writers are credited.
What the Witness to History books are about
5 of the 25 Witness to History books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: juvenile literature is tagged on 3 of 5. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Juvenile literature 3 of 5 books
- History 2 of 5 books
- Sources 2 of 5 books
- African Americans 1 of 5 books
- Civil rights 1 of 5 books
- Civil rights movements 1 of 5 books
- First contact with Europeans 1 of 5 books
- Funeral customs and rites 1 of 5 books
- Hayne, robert young, 1791-1839 1 of 5 books
- Indians of North America 1 of 5 books
- Jesuits 1 of 5 books
- Jesuits, canada 1 of 5 books