Posted on February 22, 2022 12:00 pm
Published by danielle prielipp
by Jonathan M. Katz
Gangsters of Capitalism by Jonathan M. Katz tells the story of America’s forgotten path to global power through the incredible life of Smedley Butler. Read on for an excerpt.… Read the article
Posted on January 19, 2022 11:37 am
Published by hradmin
by Jonathan M. Katz
I first came across the name Smedley Butler in Haiti, shortly after I’d moved there to be the correspondent for the Associated Press in 2007. He was in a painting of three Marines in old-fashioned khaki … Read the article
Posted on January 11, 2022 3:51 pm
Published by hradmin
by Philip Jett
Many believe that the most melancholy couple in the White House must have been the Lincolns. They endured the horrific American Civil War and suffered the loss of a child while in office. Only one of their … Read the article
Posted on December 8, 2021 2:30 pm
Published by hradmin
by The History Reader
While the holidays are primarily a time to reconnect with family and friends, there is nothing better during these cold months than curling up by the fire and reading a book you can’t put down. As … Read the article
Posted on June 19, 2021 9:00 am
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By The History Reader
As of January 1, 1863, all enslaved people in the United States were declared legally free by President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. However, as Union law could not be implemented in the Confederate-held south, slaves were not … Read the article
Posted on May 17, 2021 3:47 pm
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by Jack Kelly
Benedict Arnold was one of the Revolutionary War’s most aggressive and courageous soldiers. It’s possible that without him, American patriots would have lost the Revolutionary War.… Read the article
Posted on February 10, 2021 4:36 pm
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by Deirdre Mask
In the early weeks of the COVID pandemic, several members of Congress introduced a bill to name the D.C. street in front of the Chinese embassy after Li Wenliang. Wenliang was the Wuhan doctor who was reprimanded … Read the article
Posted on October 1, 2020 3:52 pm
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by Charles Casillo
In this excerpt from his ground-breaking biography, Charles Casillo explores how the actions of one army photographer sparked the transition of Norma Jeane into Marilyn Monroe.
Monroe photographed arriving at Ciro’s nightclub for a soirée celebrating Louella… Read the article
Posted on May 5, 2020 2:38 pm
Published by hradmin
The framers of the Constitution battled over it. Lawmakers have tried to amend or abolish it more than 700 times. We sat down with Jesse Wegman, author of Let the People Pick the President, to discuss a little bit about … Read the article