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When in Paris, Follow the Breadcrumbs

by Alex Landragin

It was a cool, grey spring day in Paris. I was standing in…
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Madame Claude: Her Secret World of Pleasure, Privilege, and Power

WCAG Headingby William Stadiem In post-WWII Paris, Madame Claude ran the most exclusive finishing school in…
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Benghabrit: The Muslim Rector who saved Jews from the Gestapo

WCAG Headingby Susan Cahill The Grand Mosque of Paris was built between 1922 and 1926 to…
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May 1968: The French Revolution That Never Was

WCAG Headingby Jonathan Fenby The mass demonstrations and strikes in France in May 1968 severely challenged…
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Cecile Rol-Tanguy: Fighting for the Liberation of Paris

WCAG Headingby Anne Sebba On 6 June 1944 Allied forces began the long-awaited invasion of northern France.…
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Varian Fry: The Artist’s Oskar Schindler

WCAG Headingby Kate Lord Brown WCAG HeadingVarian Fry and The House of Dreams The House of…
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Paul Rosenberg: A Family Memoir of Art and War

My Grandfather's Gallery
WCAG Heading by Anne Sinclair; Translated from the French by Shaun Whiteside WCAG Heading Paul Rosenburg…
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A Passion for Paris: Alexandre Dumas and the Ghosts of Romantic Fiction

Alexander Dumas
WCAG Heading by David Downie Romantic-era novelist Alexandre Dumas may well have created the world’s first…
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French History

The Hopes of the Future

by Alexander Larman

by Alexandar Larman Princess Elizabeth II was in Kenya with her husband, Prince Philip, for just…
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Five New History Reads for April 2026

The History Reader Upcoming Books for April 2026
From fighting the British in colonial America to the corrupt wild west to the controversial old…
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The Search for the Madness Pill

Solomon H. Snyder

by Justin Garson

In the 1960s, the field of psychiatry was at a standstill. While some…
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Featured Excerpt: Winning the Earthquake

Jeannette Rankin

by Lorissa Rinehart

“Few members of Congress have ever stood more alone while being true to…
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Featured Excerpt: The Feather Wars

Clover-Land Magazine [Northern Michigan University Archives]

by James H. McCommons

From the time the United States was founded, early Americans assumed that…
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Featured Excerpt: Milena and Margarete: A Love Story in Ravensbrück

Milena, circa 1930. Photo Credit: Milena and Margarete.

by Gwen Strauss

From the moment they met in 1940 in the Ravensbrück concentration camp, Milena…
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Featured Excerpt: Once There Was a Town

Lillian Chanales, portrait of author's grandmother pictured in mourning attire after husband's death.

by Jane Ziegelman

Described as an "animated tapestry" by The Wall Street Journal, Jane Ziegelman's Once…
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The Escapes of David George and the Stories We Tell About Slavery

The Escapes of David George Timeline

by Gregory E. O'Malley

by Gregory O'Malley When most people think of North American slavery, they most often think of…
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