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Pandemic 1918
Ship of Death: A Terrifying and Implacable Enemy
by Catharine Arnold
WCAG Heading In the final part of her Ship of Death essay, Catharine…
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Ship of Death: Rates on the Rise
by Catharine Arnold
WCAG Heading With the death toll rising from Spanish flu, burials at sea…
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Ship of Death: Spanish Flu on the High Seas
by Catharine Arnold
WCAG Heading As conditions worsen on the USS Leviathan in October of 1918,…
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Ship of Death: “We Must Go At Any Cost”
by Catharine Arnold
WCAG Heading Revisiting the American soldiers aboard the USS Leviathan, Catharine Arnold discusses…
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Ship of Death: The Tragic Tale of the USS Leviathan
by Catharine Arnold
WCAG Heading In three successive waves, from spring 1918 to summer 1919, the…
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Pandemic 1918
Featured Excerpt: 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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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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