Explore the Story
of Civilization
Curated history articles from the world’s leading historical journals and publications — designed to sharpen your reading comprehension and deepen your understanding of civilizations, conflicts, and cultural revolutions.
Why Read History?
History articles build the contextual reasoning and analytical comprehension essential for reading comprehension mastery and exam success.
Learn from the Past
Understand how ancient civilizations, empires, and societies rose and fell — building the contextual analysis and cause-effect reasoning tested in competitive exams.
Global Perspective
Explore world history across continents and eras, understanding diverse cultures, conflicts, and collaborations — the interdisciplinary thinking examiners test.
Critical Thinking
Develop analytical skills by examining historical evidence, evaluating primary sources, and understanding cause-and-effect relationships across time periods.
Career Opportunities
Open doors to careers in education, research, museum curation, journalism, law, public policy, and cultural heritage preservation.
Cultural Literacy
Gain deep understanding of cultural movements, revolutions, and social changes that define modern identity — essential background for exam passages.
Exam Relevance
History and civilization passages appear frequently in CAT, GRE, and GMAT reading sections. Build the historical knowledge and analytical skills that give you an edge.
History Topics We Cover
From ancient civilizations to modern revolutions — explore our comprehensive range of curated history reading material.
Why You Should Read History
Watch our video guide on how history reading builds comprehension skills for competitive exams.
History Articles
Expert-curated articles from trusted publications — free to read, designed to build comprehension.
Humanism in renaissance Italy
The voice of Hobsbawm
Repatriation or political theatre? How the return of stolen artefacts can distort history
Lesson from the past
Jawaharlal Nehru: The man who refused to be Caesar
Men Write History, But Women Live It
The mythos of leadership
Pride or shame? British history is too complex to be seen in such glib terms
Evidence from Snowball Earth found in ancient rocks on Colorado’s Pikes Peak – it’s a missing link
Gladiator II: historians on the fate of the real Roman royalty featured in the film
How History Articles Strengthen Your Reading Comprehension
History is one of the most intellectually rich subjects in the humanities, requiring readers to engage with contextual analysis, evaluate primary sources, and parse complex narratives spanning centuries. For students preparing for competitive exams like CAT, GRE, and GMAT, history-based reading passages offer an outstanding training ground for building the analytical skills that examiners test.
The Analytical Edge of Historical Reading
When you read a history article, you’re engaging with contextual narrative analysis — historians present theses, evaluate primary evidence, consider multiple perspectives, and draw conclusions about cause and consequence. This mirrors exactly the kind of analytical passage structure you’ll encounter in reading comprehension sections of competitive exams.
Regular engagement with history writing trains you to identify authorial perspective, evaluate the reliability of sources, distinguish between fact and interpretation, and trace complex cause-effect chains across time — skills that directly transfer to exam performance across all passage types.
From Ancient Empires to Modern Revolutions
Modern historical writing spans an extraordinary range — from ancient Mesopotamia and the Roman Empire to the World Wars, Cold War, and postcolonial movements. These articles expose you to interdisciplinary thinking that broadens your vocabulary, deepens your understanding of human civilization, and makes you a more versatile reader. This breadth is particularly valuable for exams that draw passages from humanities and social science domains.
How Reads @ Readlite Work
Every history article on Readlite is hand-selected by our editorial team for its reading comprehension value. We look for pieces from publications like Aeon, Smithsonian Magazine, The Conversation, and Khan Academy that combine scholarly rigor with accessible writing. Each article is tagged by topic, difficulty level, and source, making it easy to find material matched to your current skill level.
New articles are added daily as part of our curated reads program. For students who want structured analysis, vocabulary breakdowns, and practice questions alongside their reading, The Ultimate Reading Course provides a comprehensive framework to transform your comprehension skills systematically.
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