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Empire of Liberty A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 by Gordon S. Wood
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Abraham Lincoln: A Life by Michael Burlingame
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With Hitler to the End: The Memoir of Hitler’s Valet by Heinz Linge
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Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression by Morris Dickstein
April 8, 2025It was on the level of popular culture that the vital "center" of life in the...
Democracy: 1,000 Years in Pursuit of British Liberty by Peter Kellner
April 7, 2025Magna Carta, that legendary document which is so frequently referred to in discussions of freedom, and...
Journalism’s Roving Eye: A History of American Foreign Reporting by John Maxwell Hamilton
April 7, 2025Not all of the foreign correspondents for American papers were themselves American. Karl Marx contributed almost...
A New Look at Rome’s Rousing Middle Ages
April 2, 2025When its doors first opened in 1734, the Capitoline Museum, which stands upon the hilltop that...