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Hitler’s American Friends: Charles Lindbergh and ‘America First’
by Bradley Hart
by Bradley W. Hart On September 11, 1941, one of America’s most famous celebrities took to…
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Hitler’s American Friends: Henry Ford and Nazism
by Bradley Hart
by Bradley W. Hart Over the past century, Ford has become one of the most iconic…
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Who Was Father Charles Coughlin?
by Bradley Hart
by Bradley W. Hart In November 1938, one of America’s most famous radio personalities took to…
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Bearing the Legacy of Topf and Sons
by Karen Bartlett
When Hartmut Topf was a small boy, he was captivated by puppets. On…
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Who Was William Dudley Pelley and the Silver Legion?
by Bradley Hart
In 1933, a former Hollywood screenwriter-turned-mystic named William Dudley Pelley made a startling…
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Who Was Fritz Kuhn and the German American Bund?
by Bradley W. Hart
On the Fourth of July, 1937, a group of Americans gathered in…
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The Family Behind the Holocaust Cremation Ovens
by Karen Bartlett
Since the summer of 1941, the Nazis had been mulling over how to…
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Benghabrit: The Muslim Rector who saved Jews from the Gestapo
by Susan Cahill The Grand Mosque of Paris was built between 1922 and 1926 to symbolize…
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Erich Kempka: Driving Hitler and his Limousines
by Robert Klara One of the reasons why we know so much about the perilous and…
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Cecil Vandepeer Clarke: Churchill’s Secret Weapon
by Giles Milton Cecil Vandepeer Clarke viewed his caravan with the sort of affection that most…
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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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