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For Juneteenth: Inspiring Reads by Black Authors

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By The History Reader As of January 1, 1863, all enslaved people in the United States…
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Celebrating Black History Month in 2021

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Black History Month was originally created half a century after the abolition…
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Jeremiah Hamilton: Wall Street’s First Black Millionaire

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by Shane White Jeremiah Hamilton: Prince of Darkness At a little after ten o’clock on Tuesday…
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New York’s First Black Firefighters

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By Ginger Adams Otis Black Firefighters It’s no secret that FDNY firefighters are among the best…
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Shedding the Mythology of the Good Slaveholder

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By Chris Tomlinson Tomlinson Hill is the stunning story of two families—one white, one black—who trace their…
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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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