Jays, Films, and Georg Steller
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Oil and Africa
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America’s Race to the Moon
August 12, 2024During the Apollo 15 mission, an anonymous viewer phoned his local TV station to suggest that...
Frau Braun and The Tiger of Auschwitz
August 9, 2024The principal accused was an Auschwitz commandant, one Wilhelm Boger, whose sobriquet was “The Tiger of...
Horace Greeley: Champion of American Freedom byRobert C. Williams
August 9, 2024Horace Greeley is a familiar name, but how much do today’s Americans know about him? Most...
Book Review: Myths from Mesopotamia by Stephanie Dalley
August 8, 2024I asked them why they, unannounced, wished to meet with the director and they told me...
Dissonance: The Turbulent Days Between Fort Sumter and Bull Run: by David Detzer
August 7, 2024David Detzer’s new book "Dissonance" completes his trilogy about those fateful weeks and months of 1861,...
Democracy and Populism : Fear and Hatred by John Lukacs
August 7, 2024You may not like what he says, you may not agree with his conclusions, but his...
Collapse: How Nations Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
August 5, 2024By the time the first Europeans visited Easter in 1722, the Island was nearly uninhabited, virtually...
How the Cold War Began: The Igor Gouzenko Affair and the Hunt for Soviet Spies by Amy Knight
August 5, 2024Readers seeking to learn how the Cold War really began can bypass this book, since despite...