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Cultural History

A Tour of the Belasco Theatre

by Mariah Fredericks

It’s always wonderful when a novel becomes a cheap excuse to do a…
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An Uncensored History of the ’80s Hard Rock Explosion

by Tom Beaujour and Richard Bienstock

Hard rock in the 1980s was a hedonistic and often…
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Calling All Baseball Fans: Books to Read for Opening Day

by The History Reader

Major League Baseball’s Opening Day has long been a symbol of rebirth…
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Here’s the Catch: Pathway to the Majors

by Ron Swoboda

By Ron Swoboda In Here's the Catch, right fielder Ron Swoboda tells the story of the…
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Celebrating Women’s History Month in 2021

by The History Reader

In 1981, Congress declared the week of March 7th as “Women’s History…
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Celebrating Black History Month in 2021

by The History Reader

Black History Month was originally created half a century after the abolition…
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The Transformation of Christmas

by Judith Flanders

While Christmas has transformed itself over the centuries, from a time for the…
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John Lennon: Historic Man of the People and the Pied Piper of the Sixties Peace Movement

by Ken McNab

When the swirling crosscurrents of music and politics collide, a powerful social maelstrom…
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Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America

by Michael Eric Dyson

In 1963, Attorney General Robert Kennedy sought out James Baldwin to explain…
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The King of Ragtime

by Mariah Fredericks

Author Mariah Fredericks sets the scene for her latest novel, Death of an…
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Cultural History

The Centennial Fire

Centennial

by Chris Wimmer

dd The first World’s Fair on American soil ran from May 10 to…
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War and Reconciliation

war

by Tom Clavin

dd Douglas “Pete” Peterson was born in Omaha and raised in Nebraska and…
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The Rise of the Weimar Republic

Sparticist

by Susan Ronald

dd In the following excerpt from Hitler's Aristocrats, author Susan Ronald discusses the…
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Crary of the North…and South

Albert

by Tom Clavin

dd  It was on May 3, 1952, that a plane landed on the…
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Meet the White House Plumbers

Justin

by Egil "Bud" Krogh and Matthew Krogh

dd by Laura Dail and Matthew Krogh HBO's new miniseries White House Plumbers imagines the story…
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A Long Journey Home

Arizona

by Tom Clavin

dd During my recent book tour promoting the release of Follow Me to…
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The Windsors at War

Duke

by Alexander Larman

When I finished writing The Crown in Crisis, the book that has become…
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Old Houses of the West

Where

by Sandra Dallas

Novelist Sandra Dallas joins us to discuss the inspiration behind her latest book,…
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