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Jeffersonian Federalism and the Origins of State Rights
by Kevin R. C. Gutzman Thomas Jefferson’s name is most commonly associated in American popular culture…
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The White House Drone Crash and the Coming Privacy Nightmare
by Dan Bongino At approximately 3:00 a.m. on Monday, January 26, 2015, a two-foot-long, commercially available, quadcopter…
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Barack Obama’s Inauguration and his Legacy
by Michael D'Antonio On the day before he became president of the United States, Barack Obama…
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Searching for Grace Humiston: Mrs. Sherlock Holmes
by Brad Ricca Grace Humiston was a celebrated lawyer, a famous detective, and the first female…
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After Yeltsin: A Historic Change in Russian Attitudes toward Americans
By Lisa Dickey The first time I traveled across Russia, in the fall of 1995, most…
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The Kennedy Circle: A New Powerful Masculine Mystique
by Steven Watts In 1959 JFK stood as a youthful political leader, with an allure more…
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Nominating Our Best History Books 2016
As we close in on the end of of the year, we list our best history…
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When JFK Endorsed The Ugly American
by Steven Watts In the crisis of masculinity that preoccupied so many in late 1950s America,…
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Joseph LaFlesche: The Last Chief of the Omaha
by Joe Starita Born about 1818 in northeast Nebraska, the son of a French fur trader…
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An American Slavery Time Line 1492–1776
by Kenneth C. Davis American Slavery Time Line in Early American History Slavery in America began…
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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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