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Online Exclusive: Tammany Played Fair and Square With Colonists
The Lenape chief Tamanend was a trusted negotiator and brought peace to the Delaware Valley for 70 years
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Adolf Hitler: Obsessed with the Occult
Adolf Hitler and his Nazi regime turned to voodoo science in their drive for supremacy.
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Book Review: Revolver
Jim Rasenberger reveals Sam Colt, the man behind the namesake iconic American firearm, warts and all
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Mutiny! These Revolts Show Why the Seven Seas May Not Always be Seventh Heaven
A look at seven of the most infamous mutinies throughout seafaring history
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Book Review: The Confederacy’s Bid for a Continental Empire
Texans’ futile battle for access to gold and Pacific ports.
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Why Did This Crazy Kitplane Kill So Many Pilots?
Jim Bede aimed high with his little homebuilt BD-5 bullet, but engine woes and questionable financial moves caused him to overshoot the target.
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When the Soldier’s Toughest Battle Was Against Boredom
‘I would rather go there and run the chances of being Shot than Stay here all Summer.’
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Zephaniah Kingsley: Champion of Free Blacks
Unfolding on colonial Florida’s violent frontier, Zephaniah Kingsley’s story belongs to a paradoxical, pivotal chapter in the history of slavery in the United States.
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The Speed Queen Who Took on Hitler
They say history is written by the victors, and the 1938 German loss to a French-born Jew René Dreyfus, and his female boss, heiress and speed queen Lucy Schell, had to be destroyed from the annals of history.