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Excerpt: Tudors
By Peter Ackroyd 1 Hallelujah The land was flowing with milk and honey. On 21 April…
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Excerpt: A History of Ancient Egypt
By John Romer Beside the Pale Lake Living in the Faiyum,5000–4000 BC It was wetter then…
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A Brief Discussion on the History of England with Peter Ackroyd
by Peter Ackroyd
Michael Hoak: The history of England is full of watershed moments and events that are known…
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The Pope’s Last Crusade: How an American Jesuit Helped Pope Pius XI’s Campaign to Stop Hitler
By Peter Eisner Castel Gandolfo, June 23, 1938 Two days after the Eucharistic Congress, the pope…
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Understanding Haiti
By Laurent Dubois On January 12, 2010, Haiti was struck by one of the deadliest earthquakes…
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Legions of Rome: Where It All Began
by Stephen Dando-Collins
By Stephen Dando-Collins Down through the centuries, millions of men served with the army of imperial…
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President Kennedy: Berlin, Laos, and “Flexible Response”
By Alan Brinkley Late in May 1961, Kennedy decided to present a second State of the Union…
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Treaty of Tordesillas: The 1494 Decision Still Influencing Today’s World
By Stephen R. Brown The bull Inter Caetera and several other bulls from the same era…
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Rebirth of the SAS: The Malayan “Emergency”
By Alastair MacKenzie From 1948 to 1960, the British government was involved in a counter-insurgency campaign…
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November 4, 1979: The Iran Hostage Crisis
By Ray Takeyh During August 2005, American newspapers and television screens were unexpectedly filled with images…
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World History
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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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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