She seldom arrived before midnight. By then, her Manhattan speakeasy was jammed with fans, […]
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Daily Quiz for July 30, 2018
Serving in the 1800’s, he is the only U.S. vice-president to be elected by the Senate.
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Daily Quiz for July 29, 2018
Jeremiah Lanphier is remembered in American religious history for his work in setting the foundation for this movement.
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Daily Quiz for July 28, 2018
This principal participant in the famed court case, State of Tennessee versus John Thomas Scopes, died July 26, 1925, five days after the trial ended.
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Book Review: A Crooked River / Rustlers, Rangers and Regulars on the Lower Rio Grande, 1861–1877
Michael Collins presents an in-depth history of Texas’ Lower Rio Grande country through the Civil War and Reconstruction.
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Book Review: The Commanders
Acclaimed historian Robert Utley bluntly analyzes the careers of post–Civil War brigadier generals of the American West
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The Flying Cowboy: Frederick Libby
Frederick Libby became America’s first ace while flying as an observer-gunner in a spindly British pusher-propelled biplane.
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Book Review: The Golden Elixir of the West / Whiskey and the Shaping of America
Co-authors Sherry Monahan and Jane Perkins serve up an entertaining, interesting retrospective on whiskey out West.
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Book Review: Death on the Lonely Llano Estacado
Texas legal mind Bill Neal looks into the 1902 murder for hire of Llano Estacado nester J.W. Jarrott by “Deacon Jim” Miller
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Book Review: Ned Christie
Devon Mihesuah delivers the most thorough biography to date of Cherokee fugitive Ned Christie