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Frank Mankiewicz: A Portrait
by Frank Mankiewicz I don’t know when or by whom the portrait of my grandfather for…
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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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Hemingway and La Feria de San Fermín
by A.E. Hotchner In the spring of 1948, I was dispatched to Havana on the ridiculous…
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Princess Louise: A Biography
by Lucinda Hawksley The Locock Family Secret - Princess Louise It was while looking into the…
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Queen Charlotte: Wife of George III
by Janice Hadlow Queen Charlotte of Mecklenberg Strelitz, the wife of George III, has never enjoyed a…
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Homer Matters: Why?
by Adam Nicolson Chapter 1 One evening ten years ago I started to read Homer in…
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Charles Ponzi: What Makes a Con Artist?
by T.D. Thornton When you think of the history of con artists, what images come to…
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Churchill and His Money: No More Champagne
by David Lough
An Introduction: Churchill and his Money This book owes its genesis to a…
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Guarding Fidel Castro: His Double Life and Infidelity
by Juan Reinaldo Sanchez THE CASTRO DYNASTY There is nothing ordinary about Fidel Castro. He is…
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New York’s First Black Firefighters
By Ginger Adams Otis Black Firefighters It’s no secret that FDNY firefighters are among the best…
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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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