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Dominus: New Excerpt
by Steven Saylor
Spanning 160 years and seven generations, teeming with some of ancient Rome’s most vivid figures, Steven…
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Ancient Rome’s Short-Lived Teen Emperor: Practical Joker, Drag Queen, Transgender?
by Steven Saylor
Psssst! Have you heard about Elagabalus? They say he invented the world’s first…
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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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Legions of Rome: Where It All Began
by Stephen Dando-Collins
By Stephen Dando-Collins Down through the centuries, millions of men served with the army of imperial…
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Military History in Empire
By Steven Saylor My previous novel Roma followed the fortunes of a single family through the…
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Rome
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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