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Thomas Farriner: The Man Who Started Great Fire of London
by Rebecca Rideal As the sun set on another hot day, an easterly wind danced through…
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The Longest Kill: Sniper Maverick 41
by Craig Harrison The Longest Kill In the sniper world, we constantly move after firing. A…
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Captain Cook and the Discovery of Hawaii
by Captive Paradise
by James L. Haley Chapter 1: The Loneliness of a God - Captain Cook After rounding…
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The True Cost of Spice: Murder in the History of Nutmeg
By Giles Milton A change in the cloud pattern brought the first suggestion of land. Next…
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The Man Who Burned Washington D.C.
By Peter Snow The only time other than 9/11 that an outside force has attacked the…
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Life on the Streets of Victorian London
By Judith Flanders One of the earliest changes to the streets was the arrival of public…
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How the Spanish Armada Was Really Defeated
By Robert Hutchinson The Spanish Armada campaign of 1588 changed the course of European history. If…
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Five Surprisingly Modern Ideas in Shakespeare’s Writing
By Dan Falk Science, as we think of it today, didn't exist in Shakespeare’s England. And…
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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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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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The Cave Man
by Tom Clavin
Did you know that there was a series of events known as the…
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Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz
Cold Crematorium is the first English language edition of a lost memoir by Holocaust survivor József…
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