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Mississippi Murder Mystery

Governor Robert

by Tom Clavin

On March 17, 1886, one of the most shocking mass murders in…
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5 Books to Celebrate Women’s History Month

women

by The History Reader

Women’s History Month is a time for us to take a moment…
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A Secret Agent’s Pride

Peter

by John Lisle

The Dirty Tricks Department reveals the untold story of the…
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To the Shores of Tripoli

Burning

by Tom Clavin

When one thinks of America’s early naval heroes, John Paul Jones and Oliver…
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Flying Into Hell

Frank

by Frank Murphy

During WWII, Frank Murphy flew twenty-one daylight combat missions with the Mighty Eighth. The os of…
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The Marine Corps’ Deadliest Sniper

Marine

by Jim Lindsay; Foreword by Chuck Mawhinney

by Jim Lindsay Charles “Chuck” Mawhinney is a United States Marine who holds the Corps’ record…
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What Africatown Owes to the Harlem Renaissance

Cudjoe

by Nick Tabor

It’s hard to believe that when Zora Neale Hurston started on her book Barracoon,…
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Men on White Horses

JohnJ Raskob

by Susan Ronald

There’s a chapter in my new book, Hitler’s Aristocrats, titled “Men on White Horses”…
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Africatown and the Last Slave Ship

Cudjoe

by Nick Tabor

Nick Tabor's Africatown charts the fraught history of America from those who were brought here…
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A Connecticut Yankee In Texas

by Tom Clavin

This year is the bicentennial of the Texas Rangers, who played a significant…
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Elvis and the Colonel by  Greg McDonald and Marshall Terrill is a fresh biography of legendary…
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