Paris

Caresse

by Anne de Courcy

Every now and then, when writing a biography or social history, a…
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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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The History Behind the Mystery: The St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre

John Quincy Adams

by Kate Mosse

The television series The Crown, written by Peter Morgan, inspired by the history…
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When in Paris, Follow the Breadcrumbs

by Alex Landragin

It was a cool, grey spring day in Paris. I was standing in…
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Paris Through the Eyes of Henri IV

by Susan Cahill; Photographs by Marion Ranoux The story of Henri IV in Paris is best…
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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 Passion for Paris: Alexandre Dumas and the Ghosts of Romantic Fiction

Alexander Dumas
by David Downie Romantic-era novelist Alexandre Dumas may well have created the world’s first fiction factory…
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Shocking Paris: Soutine, Chagall, and the Outsiders of Montparnasse

Shocking Paris-street scene in the Jewish Quarter of Paris
by Stanley Meisler The mass migrations of European peoples to this country in the late 19th…
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Paris

The Centennial Fire

by Chris Wimmer

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

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

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

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

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

by Tom Clavin

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

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

by Sandra Dallas

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