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French Revolution

The Terror: The Fall of the Throne and Altar

by Susan Cahill

Throne and Altar, Altar and Throne. The two go together in pre-Revolution France…
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Revolutionary Brothers: “Aux Armes!”

by Tom Chaffin

The fifth and final excerpt from Revolutionary Brothers takes place in Paris in…
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The Napoleonic Wars’ Impact on Jane Austen

by Lucy Worsley ‘What calm lives they had . . . No worries about the French…
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Napoleon: Son of the Revolution

By Alan Forrest Napoleon Napoleon’s rise owed everything to the French Revolution, to its ideals of…
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French Revolution

The Centennial Fire

Centennial

by Chris Wimmer

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

war

by Tom Clavin

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

Sparticist

by Susan Ronald

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

Albert

by Tom Clavin

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

Justin

by Egil "Bud" Krogh and Matthew Krogh

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

Arizona

by Tom Clavin

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

Duke

by Alexander Larman

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

Where

by Sandra Dallas

Novelist Sandra Dallas joins us to discuss the inspiration behind her latest book,…
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