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Book Review: WILLIAM MULHOLLAND AND THE RISE OF LOS ANGELES

by HistoryNet Staff8/11/20014/30/2024

WILLIAM MULHOLLAND AND THE RISE OF LOS ANGELES, by Catherine Mulholland, University of California, […]

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by HistoryNet Staff8/11/20018/23/2016

INTO THE AMERICAN WOODS: NEGOTIATORS ON THE PENNSYLVANIA FRONTIER, by James H. Merrell, W.W. […]

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by HistoryNet Staff8/11/20018/23/2016

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by HistoryNet Staff8/11/20018/23/2016

PEARL S. BUCK: A CULTURAL BIOGRAPHY, by Peter Conn, Cambridge University Press, 468 pages, […]

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RISE OF THE NEW YORK SKYSCRAPER, 1865–913 by Sarah Bradford Landau and Carl W. […]

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C.V. Glines’ biography of underappreciated Bernt Balchen chronicles an adventuresome life.

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