Running Before the Wind

by Buddy Levy

Empire of Ice and Stone is the true, harrowing story…
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The Code That Captured Anne Boleyn

by Sarah Gristwood

Anne Boleyn has been seen as everything from a femme fatale to a…
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Bound by the Name

by Natalie Livingstone

The more I investigated, the more I was astounded by the range and…
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Black Bean Meant Death

by Tom Clavin

The following is an excerpt detailing the Mier Expedition, and it can be…
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9 Books for the History Buff in Your Life

by The History Reader

Another year has come and gone and with it, more books on…
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Not the Mother: The Relationship Between the Lindberghs and Betty Gow

by Mariah Fredericks

The kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh Jr. shocked the world in 1932. Mariah Fredericks,…
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7 Books to Read for Veterans Day

by The History Reader

World War I officially came to an end when the Treaty of…
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The Aftereffects of War

by Bill Glose

To fully understand a specific war, one must not only study the casualties…
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The True Treasure of Ancient Egypt

by John and Colleen Darnell

by Professor John Coleman Darnell and Dr. Colleen Darnell Egyptologists and authors of Egypt’s Golden Couple,…
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FDR and American Politics During WWII

by Peter Shinkle

Amid all the momentous battles and horrific tragedies of World War II, American…
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The Centennial Fire

by Chris Wimmer

The first World’s Fair on American soil ran from May 10 to November…
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War and Reconciliation

by Tom Clavin

Douglas “Pete” Peterson was born in Omaha and raised in Nebraska and Iowa.…
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The Rise of the Weimar Republic

by Susan Ronald

In the following excerpt from Hitler's Aristocrats, author Susan Ronald discusses the Weimar…
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Crary of the North…and South

by Tom Clavin

 It was on May 3, 1952, that a plane landed on the North…
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Meet the White House Plumbers

by Egil "Bud" Krogh and Matthew Krogh

by Laura Dail and Matthew Krogh HBO's new miniseries White House Plumbers imagines the story of…
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A Long Journey Home

by Tom Clavin

During my recent book tour promoting the release of Follow Me to Hell,…
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The Windsors at War

by Alexander Larman

When I finished writing The Crown in Crisis, the book that has become…
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Old Houses of the West

by Sandra Dallas

Novelist Sandra Dallas joins us to discuss the inspiration behind her latest book,…
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