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Thomas Jefferson: Revolutionary
WCAG Headingby Kevin R. C. Gutzman Thomas Jefferson’s influence on American political history outstrips that of…
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Anne Royall: Common Scold
WCAG Headingby Jeff Biggers Bloody feet, sisters, have worn smooth the path by which you have…
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The Many Affairs of Crown Prince Rudolf
WCAG Headingby Greg King and Penny Wilson On a snowy January morning in 1889, a worried…
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Echoes of Mayerling: The Unlikely Career of Countess Marie Larisch
WCAG Headingby Greg King and Penny Wilson By 1918, the Austro-Hungarian and the German Empires had…
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Women Writers as Scolds, Again
WCAG Headingby Jeff Biggers Brand her a “common scold.” That, in a nutshell, has been the…
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The Story of the Real Ichabod Crane
by Philip Jett
WCAG Heading “It was the very witching time of night that Ichabod, heavy-hearted and…
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The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Angleton
WCAG Headingby Jefferson Morley CIA spymaster James Angleton was one of the most powerful unelected officials…
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Paris Through the Eyes of Henri IV
WCAG Headingby Susan Cahill; Photographs by Marion Ranoux The story of Henri IV in Paris is…
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Q&A with The World Broke in Two Author Bill Goldstein
Bill Goldstein looks back at the intersecting lives and works of the esteemed authors who wrote…
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Edward VII’s Fight Against the Queen
WCAG Headingby Catharine Arnold Many of Edward VII’s friendships much distressed the Queen, who was equally…
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The Feather Wars
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From the time the United States was founded, early Americans assumed that…
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Milena and Margarete: A Love Story in Ravensbrück
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From the moment they met in 1940 in the Ravensbrück concentration camp, Milena…
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Once There Was a Town
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Described as an "animated tapestry" by The Wall Street Journal, Jane Ziegelman's Once…
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The Escapes of David George and the Stories We Tell About Slavery
by Gregory E. O'Malley
by Gregory O'Malley When most people think of North American slavery, they most often think of…
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The Great Abolitionist
by Stephen Puleo
The Great Abolitionist is the first major biography of Charles Sumner to be published…
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Falling in Love with Texas’ Worst Town
by Joe Pappalardo
From a wrestler with cauliflower ears to ill-used dance hall girls to everyday…
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I Told You So!
by Matt Kaplan
From Darwin to Pasteur to modern-day scientists, Matt Kaplan's I Told You So!…
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