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Oh, Those “Girton Girls!”
by Nancy Springer
In 19th century England, while sons of the well-to-do were sent to boarding…
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The Death of Kings
by Tasha Alexander
…let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death…
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Getting to the Moon: How Science Fiction Became Reality
by Brian Clegg Getting to the Moon As soon as it was realized that the Moon…
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Homer Matters: Why?
by Adam Nicolson Chapter 1 One evening ten years ago I started to read Homer in…
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Churchill and His Money: No More Champagne
by David Lough
An Introduction: Churchill and his Money This book owes its genesis to a…
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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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Treaty of Tordesillas: The 1494 Decision Still Influencing Today’s World
By Stephen R. Brown The bull Inter Caetera and several other bulls from the same era…
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England
Charles Sumner Witnesses the “Abraham Lincoln Magic”
by Stephen Puleo
In April 1865, at General Ulysses S. Grant’s Headquarters at City Point, Virginia,…
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The Wreck of USS Monitor
by David Gibbins
Almost half of the ships that I cover in my book, A History…
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America’s Most Clandestine Military Unit
Adam Gamal (a pseudonym created to keep his family safe from harm) served in the most…
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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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