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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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The First Wells Fargo Detective
by John Boessenecker
For fifteen years, Henry Johnson had his hands full as Wells Fargo’s pioneer…
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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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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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America’s First Native American Doctor
by Joe Starita
On March 14, 1889, Susan La Flesche Picotte received her medical degree—becoming the…
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The Death of an Escape Artist: Harry Houdini
by Arnold van de Laar
When Erik Weisz died on 31 October 1926, it was world news. Like Charlie…
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Robert Todd Lincoln—Blessed and Cursed
by Philip Jett Robert To Lincoln did not resemble his famous father. At seven inches shorter…
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The Real Women Who Inspired
Downton Abbey
by Anne de Courcy
Towards the end of the nineteenth century and for the first few…
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The Secret Plot to Murder King James I
by Benjamin Woolley The rise of George Villiers from minor gentry to royal power seemed to…
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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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The First Shots of the Revolution
by Jack Kelly
In the following excerpt from God Save Benedict Arnold , the first shots of…
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The Cave Man
by Tom Clavin
Did you know that there was a series of events known as the…
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Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz
Cold Crematorium is the first English language edition of a lost memoir by Holocaust survivor József…
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