Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief by James M. McPherson
July 11, 2026Lincoln came to the Presidency without any real military experience. He had been an Illinois militia...
Frontiersman: Daniel Boone and the Making of America by Meredith Mason Brown
July 9, 2026It was brutal stuff. Massacres, scalpings, crops burned, winters with only salted meat to eat –...
Dilettanti: The Antic and the Antique in Eighteenth-Century England by Bruce Redford
July 9, 2026A famous double portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds shows members of the Dilettanti Society sipping away...
Résistance by Agnès Humbert
July 7, 2026The early resistors soon discover that the Nazis don’t view their activities with similar lightheartedness. Oblivious...
Events Leading to America’s Involvement in Vietnam
July 5, 2026Given the political vacuum in the South, a Communist takeover of all of Vietnam within two...
A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn by James Donovan
July 5, 2026Had Sitting Bull and his war chiefs reacted in the customary skirmishing style of Plains Indian...
Photo Essay: North Korean Propaganda Posters
July 3, 2026Posters are visual illustrations of the slogans that surround the people of North Korea constantly. North...
The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin’s Russia by Tim Tsouliadis
July 3, 2026Readers of faint heart beware when embarking upon this superb work of history. So many stories...
A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World by Tony Horwitz
July 3, 2026Gold, jewels – that was what the new world promised and that was what the Spanish...
Bracing For Armageddon? by William R. Clark
July 2, 2026Asahara amassed hundreds of million dollars and sent agents to far-flung destinations to ferret out information...
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