This was the first coffeehouse to open in Europe.
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Daily Quiz for January 28, 2017
In 1896, J. P. Morgan, Joseph Pulitzer, William Vanderbilt and others formed this organization.
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Book Review: Through the Heart of Dixie
Through the Heart of Dixie: Sherman’s March and American Memory By Anne Sarah Rubin, […]
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Book Review: Persuading John Bull
Persuading John Bull: Union and Confederate Propaganda in Britain, 1860-1865 By Thomas E. Sebrell […]
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Book Review: ‘We Fought Desperate’
‘We Fought Desperate’: A History of the 153rd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment By Jeffery […]
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Book Review: Founders’ Son- A Life of Abraham Lincoln
Founders’ Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln By Richard Brookhiser, Basic Books 2014, $27.99 […]
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Book Review: A Gunner in Lee’s Army
A Gunner in Lee’s Army: The Civil War Letters of Thomas Henry Carter Edited […]
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Johnston Comes Out Swinging at Bentonville
Outmanned, disorganized and disheartened, the Confederates could do little more than harass Gen. William […]
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‘I Heard a Pistol Shot’: Eyewitness to the Assassination of Lincoln
A soldier who rarely went to the theater witnessed the drama of the century on April 14, 1865.
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Lincoln’s Final Appeal: The Last Speech of Abraham Lincoln
The president’s last speech reached beyond the war to a peace he wouldn’t experience.