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Famine

The Year of Decision

by Stephen Puleo

Voyage of Mercy is the remarkable story of the mission that inspired a…
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Voyage of Mercy: “The Distress is Universal”

by Stephen Puleo

Ireland, 1846. Father Theobald Mathew implores assistant secretary at the British Treasury, Charles…
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America’s Remarkable First Humanitarian Mission: Widespread Aid to Ireland During the Great Famine

by Stephen Puleo

By Stephen Puleo Stephen Puleo, author of Voyage of Mercy, discusses the remarkable story of the…
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Famine

The Centennial Fire

Centennial

by Chris Wimmer

dd The first World’s Fair on American soil ran from May 10 to…
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War and Reconciliation

war

by Tom Clavin

dd Douglas “Pete” Peterson was born in Omaha and raised in Nebraska and…
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The Rise of the Weimar Republic

Sparticist

by Susan Ronald

dd In the following excerpt from Hitler's Aristocrats, author Susan Ronald discusses the…
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Crary of the North…and South

Albert

by Tom Clavin

dd  It was on May 3, 1952, that a plane landed on the…
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Meet the White House Plumbers

Justin

by Egil "Bud" Krogh and Matthew Krogh

dd by Laura Dail and Matthew Krogh HBO's new miniseries White House Plumbers imagines the story…
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A Long Journey Home

Arizona

by Tom Clavin

dd During my recent book tour promoting the release of Follow Me to…
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The Windsors at War

Duke

by Alexander Larman

dd dd When I finished writing The Crown in Crisis, the book that…
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Old Houses of the West

Where

by Sandra Dallas

dd dd Novelist Sandra Dallas joins us to discuss the inspiration behind her…
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