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The Importance of Mud
by Jane Ziegelman
Once Upon a Town author Jane Ziegelman credits her studies in cultural anthropology…
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Cape Coast Castle’s Role in the Transatlantic Slave Trade
by Siddharth Kara
Pulitzer Prize-finalist Siddharth Kara visited the Gold Coast in Africa while doing research…
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Julie of Saxe-Coburg’s Sister-in-Law: Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg
by Helen Rappaport
New York Times bestselling author Helen Rappaport shares the unhappy,…
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Dying to Be Beautiful: Deadly Cosmetics
by Eleanor Herman
WCAG Heading The story of poison is the story of power. For centuries, royal…
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Dictators, the Books They Wrote, and Other Catastrophes of Literacy
wcag heading by Daniel Kalder Since the days of the Roman Empire dictators have written books.…
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The Many Affairs of Crown Prince Rudolf
WCAG Headingby Greg King and Penny Wilson On a snowy January morning in 1889, a worried…
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Echoes of Mayerling: The Unlikely Career of Countess Marie Larisch
WCAG Headingby Greg King and Penny Wilson By 1918, the Austro-Hungarian and the German Empires had…
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The Rise and Fall of the Viking Crusades
WCAG Headingby John Haywood The Wendish Crusade In 1144, the crusaders lost the key city of…
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The Lewis Chessmen: Brexit and a New North Sea Style
WCAG Headingby Nancy Marie Brown Look at a map and remember the key position this area…
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The Incredible Case of Monsignor Scarano
WCAG Headingby Gianluigi Nuzzi In March 2013, before the election of the new Pontiff, the prosecutors’…
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European History
Featured Excerpt: The Great Abolitionist
by Stephen Puleo
The Great Abolitionist is the first major biography of Charles Sumner to be published…
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Falling in Love with Texas’ Worst Town
by Joe Pappalardo
From a wrestler with cauliflower ears to ill-used dance hall girls to everyday…
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I Told You So!
by Matt Kaplan
From Darwin to Pasteur to modern-day scientists, Matt Kaplan's I Told You So!…
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Five History Books Coming This March!
From society belles teaming up with gun manufacturers to save America's birds in The Feather Wars…
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The Battle of Wounded Knee
by Tom Clavin
Two weeks after the death of Sitting Bull, tensions were high between the…
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Featured Excerpt: Emilio Pucci
by by Terence Ward and Idanna Pucci
Terence Ward and Idanna Pucci with a foreword by Suzy Menkes When people think of fashion…
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The Importance of Mud
by Jane Ziegelman
Once Upon a Town author Jane Ziegelman credits her studies in cultural anthropology…
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Featured Excerpt: The Escapes of David George
by Gregory E. O'Malley
When most Americans think of slavery, they do not picture the colonial…
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