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Charles Ponzi: What Makes a Con Artist?
by T.D. Thornton When you think of the history of con artists, what images come to…
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Clinton’s America: The 1990s
by Gil Troy Bill Clinton was ambitious, in the best sense of the word. He wanted…
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NASL Soccer – The Rock ‘N’ Roll Years of the Minnesota Kicks
by Ian Plenderleith NASL Soccer Everyone knows that the New York Cosmos was the baest, sexiest…
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Who is Israel? How the National Character of Israeli Shapes our World
by Alon Gratch War, Peace and other Cycles of Change Perhaps the best metaphor for change…
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Five Amazing Women of the Revolutionary War
by Jack Kelly Margaret Corbin Born on the Pennsylvania frontier, Margaret Cochran was orphaned when her…
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New York’s First Black Firefighters
By Ginger Adams Otis Black Firefighters It’s no secret that FDNY firefighters are among the best…
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The Global Reserve Currency: Despite Problems The Dollar Still Rules
By Milton Ezrati The dollar is back. After no end of death sentences issued over the…
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A Passion for Paris: Alexandre Dumas and the Ghosts of Romantic Fiction
by David Downie Romantic-era novelist Alexandre Dumas may well have created the world’s first fiction factory…
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Circumference: Round, Flat, and Egg-Shaped
by Nicholas Nicastro On a recent trip to Istanbul, I belatedly discovered a museum that I’d…
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New York
Charles Sumner Witnesses the “Abraham Lincoln Magic”
by Stephen Puleo
In April 1865, at General Ulysses S. Grant’s Headquarters at City Point, Virginia,…
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The Wreck of USS Monitor
by David Gibbins
Almost half of the ships that I cover in my book, A History…
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America’s Most Clandestine Military Unit
Adam Gamal (a pseudonym created to keep his family safe from harm) served in the most…
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Feathered Fighters
by Tom Clavin
67 years ago, the U.S. Army Pigeon Service closed. You might think that…
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7 Books to Celebrate Women’s History Month
This Women’s History Month, we bring you seven titles highlighting the amazing feats of women, whether…
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Good With a Gun
by Tom Clavin
In the following excerpt from Follow Me to Hell, Tom Clavin introduces John…
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When Fascists Roamed America’s Cities
by Thomas Mullen
When we think about the World War II years, we tend to visualize…
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The Mayor and the Nazis
by Terry Golway
As hard as it is to imagine, there was a time in the…
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