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Operation Chaos: An Untold Cold War Story
by Matthew Sweet Stockholm, 1968. A thousand American deserters and draft-resisters are arriving to escape the war…
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World War II: The Fear and the Freedom
by Keith Lowe
The Second World War was not just another crisis—it directly affected more people…
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Echoes of Mayerling: The Unlikely Career of Countess Marie Larisch
by Greg King and Penny Wilson By 1918, the Austro-Hungarian and the German Empires had collapsed…
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Paris Abandoned: The Realities of Armistice During World War II
by Anne Sebba
Slowly, the terms of the armistice began to sink in. The French had…
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Paris Through the Eyes of Henri IV
by Susan Cahill; Photographs by Marion Ranoux The story of Henri IV in Paris is best…
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Father’s Day Roundup – Our Top Picks for Dad
America first celebrated Father’s Day on June 19, 1910, in Washington. It wasn't until President Woodrow…
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Inside a Prison Cell with Sheikh Ahmed Ashoush
by Shadi Hamid What does it look like to come of age in the Muslim Brotherhood,…
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Benghabrit: The Muslim Rector who saved Jews from the Gestapo
by Susan Cahill The Grand Mosque of Paris was built between 1922 and 1926 to symbolize…
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Francis Willoughby Begins his Legendary Journey to the West Indies
by Matthew Parker Francis Willoughby would be described by contemporaries as both charming and self-centered; his military…
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Kim Dae-jung & the Dawn of Korean Democracy
by Michael Breen That day the dictator conceded, June 29, 1987, is celebrated as the starting point of…
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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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