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Spiritualists in Lincoln’s White House
by Philip Jett
“A simple faith in God is good enough for me, and beyond that,…
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The Robber Barons of Yore: Who Was George Pullman?
by Jack Kelly
The Pullman car is one of those things we’ve heard about, but we’re…
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The Effects of Industrialization on American Democracy
by Jack Kelly
We like to imagine that we live in the most innovative era in…
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The Yawning Financial Gap of the Gilded Age
by Jack Kelly
It was Mark Twain who coined the term Gilded Age. He made it…
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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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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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Who Was Fritz Kuhn and the German American Bund?
by Bradley W. Hart
On the Fourth of July, 1937, a group of Americans gathered in…
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Ghost: My Thirty Years as an FBI Undercover Agent
by Michael R. McGowan and Ralph Pezzullo People usually become informants for three reasons: 1. They…
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FDR and Al Smith: An Unlikely Political Alliance
by Terry Golway Like many state senators in the spring of 1912, Franklin Roosevelt was a…
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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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U. S. History
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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