Historical Figures

The Softer Side of Wild Bill Hickok

by Tom Clavin

WCAG Heading It should surprise no one that Wild Bill Hickok was a…
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The Life of Florence Gould: American Beauty, Noted Philanthropist, Nazi Collaborator

by Susan Ronald

WCAG Heading A Dangerous Woman is Susan Ronald’s revealing biography of Florence Gould, fabulously…
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George Washington’s Heroism at Valley Forge

by Tom Clavin

WCAG Heading Some people think there was a Battle of Valley Forge. There…
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A Clue to a Secret Love of George Washington

by Mary Calvi

WCAG Heading Those who read Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, No. 550, in March…
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The Life and Death of Wild Bill Hickok

by Tom Clavin

WCAG Heading Their names are legends on the American frontier: Daniel Boone, Davy…
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The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington

by Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch

WCAG Heading In 1776, an elite group of soldiers were handpicked to…
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Queen Victoria: Twenty-Four Days That Changed Her Life

by Lucy Worsley

WCAG Heading Drawing from the vast collection of Victoria’s correspondence and the rich…
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Therese Anne Fowler’s A Well-Behaved Woman: A Novel of the Vanderbilts

by Therese Anne Fowler

WCAG Heading Alva Smith, her southern family destitute after the Civil War,…
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Hitler’s American Friends: Charles Lindbergh and ‘America First’

by Bradley Hart

Wcag Heading by Bradley W. Hart On September 11, 1941, one of America’s most famous celebrities…
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Hitler’s American Friends: Henry Ford and Nazism

by Bradley Hart

WCAG Heading by Bradley W. Hart Over the past century, Ford has become one of the…
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