Record-setting pilot Helen Richey fought for a spot in a man’s world.
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Daily Quiz for March 21, 2018
After serving as Sam Houston’s vice-president, this man became the second president of the Republic of Texas.
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American History Book Review: Rebirth of a Nation
Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America, 1877-1920 By Jackson Lears, Harper […]
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American History Book Review: The Queen of the Ring
The Queen of the Ring: Sex, Muscles, Diamonds, and the Making of an American […]
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American History Book Review: Lincoln
Lincoln on Race & Slavery Edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Donald Yacovone, […]
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American History Book Review: The Day Wall Street Exploded
The Day Wall Street Exploded: A Story of America in Its First Age of […]
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Edwin Hubble: America’s Cosmic Frontiersman
During the Roaring ’20s, an intrepid astronomer blazed a trail with the world’s largest […]
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John Hope Franklin, R.I.P.
John Hope Franklin proved that a historian could move mountains. John Hope Franklin (1915-2009) […]
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Lincoln Chronicles: Reborn on the 4th of July
Independence Day victories at Gettysburg and Vicksburg inspired Lincoln to declare a new birth of freedom for a traumatized nation.
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Populist Rage
Shays’s Rebellion: The American Revolution’s Final Battle by Leonard L. Richards, University of Pennsylvania, […]