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French Revolution
The Terror: The Fall of the Throne and Altar
by Susan Cahill
WCAG Heading Throne and Altar, Altar and Throne. The two go together in pre-Revolution…
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Revolutionary Brothers: “Aux Armes!”
by Tom Chaffin
WCAG Heading The fifth and final excerpt from Revolutionary Brothers takes place in…
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The Napoleonic Wars’ Impact on Jane Austen
WCAG Headingby Lucy Worsley ‘What calm lives they had . . . No worries about the…
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Napoleon: Son of the Revolution
WCAG HeadingBy Alan Forrest WCAG HeadingNapoleon Napoleon’s rise owed everything to the French Revolution, to its…
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French Revolution
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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