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Kissinger’s Shadow: A Q&A with Author Greg Grandin
Q. Kissinger is frequently called a "realist," but you disagree. How so? There are lots of…
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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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Grammar Versus Slang: An American Tradition
by Rosemarie Ostler It only takes a quick surf around the internet to see that Americans…
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Honoring America’s POW/MIA Wives
by Alvin Townley Jane Denton knew why the dark sedan had arrived that day in July…
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Without Mercy: 2015 SIBA Book Award Nominee
Each year, hundreds of booksellers across the South vote on their favorite books of the year,…
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Obama and FDR: A Faulty Comparison
by Aaron David Miller With only 43 different presidents, (44 to account for Grover Cleveland’s two…
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John F Kennedy in Office: Tips for Today’s Senate
John T. Shaw If Senator John F Kennedy in office was faced with the U.S. Senate…
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The Grateful Dead in the Age of Reagan
by Peter Richardson Much to my surprise, one of the key characters in my cultural history…
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A History of American Holiday Stamps
by Chris West We’re all so used to holiday stamps that many people don’t realize they…
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The Secret Service: A Crisis in Leadership and Mission
by Dan Emmett In 2011 when I began writing the initial manuscript for Within Arm’s Length…
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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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