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Hitler’s Jewish Army

by Ellen Feldman

While conducting research for her novel, author Ellen Feldman stumbled upon one of…
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Benghabrit: The Muslim Rector who saved Jews from the Gestapo

by Susan Cahill The Grand Mosque of Paris was built between 1922 and 1926 to symbolize…
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A Judenrat’s Financial Triumph Over the Gestapo

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by Michael Bornstein and Debbie Bornstein Holinstat It was March 1941. Nearly a year had passed…
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Life Inside the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp

by David Cesarani Until the mass eviction of German Jews to Theresienstadt, the ghetto-camp had a…
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Elie Wiesel: Night

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Preface to Night by Elie Wiesel If in my lifetime I was to write only one…
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Ben Mankiewicz: “If Your Last Name Is Mankiewicz”

by Ben Mankiewicz Writing about my father should be easy. But it isn’t. Writing is supposed…
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Primo Levi: An Author Q&A

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by Sergio Luzzatto No other Auschwitz survivor has been as literately powerful and historically influential as…
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What Can We Learn from Red Dead Redemption?

by Tore C. Olsson

In his new book Red Dead's History, Tore Olsson reveals the gritty and brutal world that…
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Pat Nixon and “Panda Diplomacy”

by Heath Hardage Lee

As spring came to Washington in 1972, there was little rest for…
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The Decade in Southern History that (Almost) No One Is Talking About

by Tore C. Olsson

Imagine a bookcase large enough to contain all the works ever written…
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Uncovering Stories in Small Archives

by Kathleen Sheppard

Mary Charlton Jonas (1874-1950) returned to her work at the Egypt Exploration Society’s…
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Butch Gets Busted

by Tom Clavin

This month is the 130th anniversary of when Butch Cassidy was sent to prison in Wyoming for…
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Adventure, Shipwrecks, and the History of the World

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David Gibbins's day job is anything but normal. Gibbins has worked in underwater archaeology all his…
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John Colter: The First Mountain Man?

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by Tom Clavin

One of the joys of researching and writing (with Bob Drury) Throne of…
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Army Rangers on D-Day

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by Tom Clavin

As many of you are aware, this week marks the 80th anniversary of D-Day,…
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