Author and art collector Larry Len Peterson explores the life of Charlie Russell through photos of the iconic Western painter and sculptor
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Shocking Visualization of World War II Fatalities
The grander context of the gravity that was World War II is shocking, but […]
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Daily Quiz for June 10, 2015
Felix Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 2 was written to commemorate the 400th anniversary of this event.
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Book Review: John Mullan, by Keith C. Petersen
Keith Petersen looks at the career of John Mullan, among the most persistent and pushy Western road builders of the frontier era
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Book Review: A Cross of Thorns / The Enslavement of California’s Indians by the Spanish Missions
In A Cross of Thorns author Elias Castillo challenges the legacy of Father Junipero Serra, founder of California’s Spanish missions.
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Rough on Rats and Siblings
In November 1897 a doctor in Dixon, Calif., diagnosed several patients with indigestion, but the subsequent deaths of Susie and Louis Belew turned out to be a poisonous family affair
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‘The only way to win World War III is to prevent it’
Eisenhower deftly maneuvered through Cold War crises, from the threat of nuclear annihilation to domestic political turmoil
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Déjà Vu: Ike’s Middle East Gambit
The United States is trying to make a deal with Iran, by which that […]
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Daily Quiz for June 9, 2015
Forced to flee Nicaragua by the Sandinista revolution in 1979, President Anastacio Somoza Debayle was subsequently assassinated here in 1980.
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What was the purpose of a black sphere on a dogtag chain?
Dear Mr. History, My dad served in the Air Force from 1947 to 1969. […]