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1962
Reasons for the Cuban Missile Crisis
by Patrick Sloyan
One of my goals in writing The Politics of Deception: JFK’S Secret Decisions on Vietnam, Cuba
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1962
The Forgotten Women Who Brought the Nazis to Justice
by Natalie Livingstone
by Natalie Livingstone
Glancing at Dame Laura Knight’s painting of the Nuremberg Trials below, you might assume the historic
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The Confederacy Myth
by Connor Williams
by Connor Williams
What can Americans learn about our divided country today from the Civil War that divided us
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Remembering Lillian Smith
by Keri Leigh Merritt
by Keri Leigh Merritt
Lillian Smith was a remarkable Southern white woman who fought to end segregation as early as
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The Phantom
by Bob Drury and Tom Clavin
by Bob Drury and Tom Clavin
Germans knew U.S. Marine Pete Ortiz as
Das
Fantom. They had placed a half a million
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Carve Out Time for October’s New History Reads
As the weather cools and the days grow shorter, there is no better time to settle
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An Inconvenient Woman
by Keri Leigh Merritt
by Keri Leigh Merritt
A key figure in the early civil rights movement, Lillian Smith devoted her life to ending
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Alexander
by Edmund Richardson
by Edmund Richardson
Alexander the Great was a wide-eyed boy from the hills of Macedon who ruled most of
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Confronting America
by Bill O'Reilly and Josh Hammer
by Bill O'Reilly and Josh Hammer
In
Confronting America
, Bill O'Reilly and Josh Hammer argue that Americans have lost sight of
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Featured Excerpt: Confronting America
by Bill O'Reilly and Josh Hammer