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Children’s Books
By Mac Barnett For the three Latino kids transported to 1862 Mexico in Emma Otheguy’s latest novel, the outcome of the American Civil War hangs in the balance. By Juan Vidal In H.M. Bouwman ...
The New York Times8d
Children’s Books
By Mac Barnett For the three Latino kids transported to 1862 Mexico in Emma Otheguy’s latest novel, the outcome of the American Civil War hangs in the balance. By Juan Vidal In H.M. Bouwman ...
Black abolitionist Henry Highland Garnet, who lived on Long Island, helped shape the country's views on slavery
A powerful orator, Garnet helped shift the landscape on the abolition of slavery from trying to convince enslavers of the ...
What Really Happened During the Black Hawk Down Incident? Inside the Real-Life Combat Mission Gone Wrong Revisited in Surviving Black Hawk Down
Ridley Scott’s 2001 war film 'Black Hawk Down' told the story of 1993’s deadly Battle of Mogadishu. Here is a look back at ...
Shapeshifter: The Never-Ending Enigma of Bob Dylan
In cinemas today you can watch Timothée Chalamet impersonate Bob Dylan in the biopic A Complete Unknown. For Esquire, Mick Brown — one of the rare journalists to have interviewed the great man in ...
At Mother Bethel, Villanova professor previews ‘Last Seen,’ her book about how Black families searched for relatives sold during slavery
One year after the Civil War ended, Hagar Outlaw, a formerly enslaved woman in North Carolina, was desperate to find eight of her children who had been sold during slavery. She turned to ...
Trump’s ‘Cultural Revolution’ purges trigger alarming echoes of Mao
The Trump regime's purges of bureaucrats and educators over issues like diversity offer scary similarities to China's 1960s ...
International incident: How Irish republicans planned to attack Campobello from the U.S.
The New Brunswick Military History Museum's latest acquisition is a belated thank you for service to the country before it ...
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History, memory and perspective with Jon Goodrich and Bennington's Big Mill
Jon Goodrich loves Bennington. He also loves old buildings. Those two elements intersect in a new locally available book he ...
'She thought of herself as the Queen of America': Why Mary Todd Lincoln became the US's most vilified First Lady
Abraham Lincoln's wife was long attacked for everything from her spending to her lack of emotional restraint. But with two ...
Vintage photos show what life was like under Trump's tariff hero, William McKinley
President Trump has long celebrated William McKinley's tariff policies. Vintage photos show how they affected Americans.
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A place worse than hell
Historians consistently rank Abraham Lincoln as the greatest U.S. president. Without his leadership and political brilliance, ...