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The Centennial Fire
by Chris Wimmer
dd The first World’s Fair on American soil ran from May 10 to…
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The History Behind the Mystery: Maze Master
by Kathleen ONeal Gear
Wcag Heading by Kathleen O’Neal Gear A reporter once told me that our library could pass…
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The Secret Plot to Murder King James I
WCAG Headingby Benjamin Woolley The rise of George Villiers from minor gentry to royal power seemed…
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Alexander Cochrane and the Enduring Myths of the War of 1812
WCAG HeadingBy Willard Sterne Randall The War of 1812, often called “the forgotten conflict,” is probably…
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Amy Lowell: Making the World Safe for Poetry
WCAG Headingby Nina Sankovitch In December 1917, Amy Lowell’s local newspaper, The Brookline Chronicle, ran a notice…
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World War I Centennial: America’s Entry into The Great War
Exactly 100 years ago today, April 6, 1917 the United States of America declared war on…
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Erich Kempka: Driving Hitler and his Limousines
WCAG Headingby Robert Klara One of the reasons why we know so much about the perilous…
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Nominating Our Best History Books 2016
As we close in on the end of of the year, we list our best history…
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Felix Yusupov and the Murder of Rasputin
WCAG Headingby Douglas Smith The Yusupov household was staunchly anti-Rasputin. Felix Yusupov’s father could not bear…
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Colonel Peter Ortiz and the Covert Marines
WCAG HeadingMichael E. Haskew Among the most compelling and least known U.S. Marine exploits of World…
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The Feather Wars
by James H. McCommons
From the time the United States was founded, early Americans assumed that…
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Milena and Margarete: A Love Story in Ravensbrück
by Gwen Strauss
From the moment they met in 1940 in the Ravensbrück concentration camp, Milena…
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Once There Was a Town
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
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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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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