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An American Hero Lost to History
Flee North by Scott Shane is a riveting account of the extraordinary abolitionist, liberator, and writer…
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Africatown and the Last Slave Ship
by Nick Tabor
Nick Tabor's Africatown charts the fraught history of America from those who were brought here…
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Thomas Jefferson on Slavery and Abolition
by Kevin R. C. Gutzman
The Jeffersonians chronicles the lives, policy initiatives, and critical decisions of…
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Robert Smalls Sails out of Slavery
by Cate Lineberry As the waves rocked the Planter, Robert Smalls proudly presented the guns to…
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Frederick Douglass: A Life and Times
by James A. Colaiaco Frederick Douglass On Monday, July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass, the former slave,…
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Jefferson’s “Scientific” Declaration of Independence
by Tom Shachtman Before Thomas Jefferson began to write a draft of the Declaration of Independence,…
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Shedding the Mythology of the Good Slaveholder
By Chris Tomlinson Tomlinson Hill is the stunning story of two families—one white, one black—who trace their…
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Charles Sumner Witnesses the “Abraham Lincoln Magic”
by Stephen Puleo
In April 1865, at General Ulysses S. Grant’s Headquarters at City Point, Virginia,…
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The Wreck of USS Monitor
by David Gibbins
Almost half of the ships that I cover in my book, A History…
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America’s Most Clandestine Military Unit
Adam Gamal (a pseudonym created to keep his family safe from harm) served in the most…
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Feathered Fighters
by Tom Clavin
67 years ago, the U.S. Army Pigeon Service closed. You might think that…
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7 Books to Celebrate Women’s History Month
This Women’s History Month, we bring you seven titles highlighting the amazing feats of women, whether…
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Good With a Gun
by Tom Clavin
In the following excerpt from Follow Me to Hell, Tom Clavin introduces John…
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When Fascists Roamed America’s Cities
by Thomas Mullen
When we think about the World War II years, we tend to visualize…
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The Mayor and the Nazis
by Terry Golway
As hard as it is to imagine, there was a time in the…
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