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In anticipation of his new book, LABYRINTH OF ICE, we sat down with author Buddy Levy to learn more about his research, journey, and what attracted him to this project. Learn more about his retelling of the Greely Expedition in our exclusive Q&A: http://bit.ly/2PgvDVQ
In our third featured excerpt from REVOLUTIONARY BROTHERS, the Continental Army celebrates the French alliance as a twenty-one-year-old Lafayette proves his worth to General Washington. Read on: http://bit.ly/2YdUHAQ
In our second excerpt from Tom Chaffin’s REVOLUTIONARY BROTHERS, the Marquis de Lafayette inspects the Continental Army for the first time in 1777. Although the Army is raggedly dressed and poorly armed, Lafayette acts with grace and humility as General Washington displays his troops. Read on: bit.ly/34wGstm
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The Mayflower Compact has been much romanticized. The signing took place in no special cabin. It is unlikely that women or children were present for it, as many representations suggest. Yet artists are right to depict the scene as a moment of great drama and historical import. The act of creating such a colony was revolutionary. Read on: http://bit.ly/2NDv9cC
Rebecca Fraser's THE MAYFLOWER is now available in paperback: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250108579
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In the first of five excerpts from REVOLUTIONARY BROTHERS (On Sale November 26), Tom Chaffin discusses Thomas Jefferson and the Marquis de Lafayette as they plan a Virginia campaign in 1781. Read on: http://bit.ly/33dzZSz
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In our latest post, F/A-18 Weapon Systems Officer Caroline Johnson gives an intense and thrilling account of her first contact with ISIS in Iraq: http://bit.ly/JetGirlExcerpt
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In his latest novel author P. T. Deutermann tells the tale of a novice naval aviator who grows into a hero in a gripping World War II adventure. Deutermann looks back on his own naval training and first encounter with a “nugget” for The History Reader: http://www.thehistoryreader.com/modern-history/naval-academy-nuggets-p-t-deutermann/
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Here's another chance to be one of the first to read the real story of two American agents who risked everything to capture the world's most wanted man—Pablo Escobar.
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Visionary chemist Sidney Gottlieb was the CIA’s master magician and gentlehearted torturer—the agency’s “poisoner in chief.”
As head of the MK-ULTRA mind control project, he directed brutal experiments at secret prisons on three continents. He made pills, powders, and potions that could kill or maim without a trace—including some intended for Fidel Castro and other foreign leaders. He paid prostitutes to lure clients to CIA-run bordellos, where they were secretly dosed with mind-altering drugs. His experiments spread LSD across the United States, making him a hidden godfather of the 1960s counterculture. For years he was the chief supplier of spy tools used by CIA officers around the world.
Learn more in an excerpt from Stephen Kinzer's POISONER IN CHIEF: http://www.thehistoryreader.com/modern-history/sidney-gottlieb-and-the-cia-search-for-mind-control/
Who was Leonard Schroeder? And how did he write himself into the history books on D-Day? Turns out he was destined to play a crucial role in the first wave of Allied landings on Utah Beach.
Read on: http://www.thehistoryreader.com/military-history/d-day-the-utah-beach-landings/
As dawn broke on June 6,1944 Allied forces were conducting their first wave of landings on Utah Beach—only to realize that the plan had gone very wrong.
Condé Nast’s life and career was as high profile and glamorous as his magazines. Moving to New York in the early twentieth century with just the shirt on his back, he soon became the highest-paid executive in the United States, acquiring Vogue in 1909 and Vanity Fair in 1913.
Read an excerpt of Susan Ronald's biography of the publishing pioneer, CONDÉ NAST: http://www.thehistoryreader.com/modern-history/conde-nast-the-man-and-his-empire/
#TodayInHistory 1963—The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom takes place and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I have a dream" speech at the base of the Lincoln memorial. Look back on the day with a firsthand account from Clayborne Carson's memoir: http://www.thehistoryreader.com/modern-history/alone-at-the-march-a-firsthand-account-of-the-dream-speech/
Who was Terence Otway? And why was he chosen to capture one of the biggest German bunkers in the early hours of D-Day? Turns out that he was one of the most extraordinary Allied commanders to fight against the Germans on June 6, 1944. Read on: http://bit.ly/DDayMerville
A few hours before the Normandy beach landings, Allied troops invaded the Merville Battery, a giant gun encampment, with instructions to destroy it.
Based on hundreds of exclusive first-hand interviews and cultivated over twenty years of research—including numerous Oral Histories from the JFK Library and the Edward M. Kennedy Institute—THE KENNEDY HEIRS is an epic drama of ambition, scandal, pride and power. Enter for a chance to win a hardcover copy! http://bit.ly/KennedyHeirsSweeps
In recent years, we’ve been subjected to movies and various reality shows ostensibly depicting the Amish and the plain life. But what do we really know about the Amish?
Author Linda Castillo explores the community's history in the latest on our blog: http://bit.ly/32nVikU
Author Linda Castillo delves into the history of the Amish communities that provide the setting for her bestselling Kate Burkholder mysteries.
Who was Denis Edwards? And why was he dropped behind enemy lines some six hours before the beach landings on D-Day? Find out in the latest from Giles Milton (Writer): http://bit.ly/2MTrEAx
Hours before the beach landings on D-Day, a group of men underwent a dangerous nighttime mission in France. What happened in that fateful operation?
Mercenaries live outside the law and are often portrayed as colorful characters, a little bit brigand and a little bit hero. But living outside the law comes with consequences. More from author J. R. Olson: http://bit.ly/2x2ufgw
Photo: UK Express, October 12th, 2017, Russian Mercenaries Fighting in Syria, Image Courtesy of Getty
As is well known by now, the Kennedys have always been a family of dreamers. The members of the third generation have memories of their grandparents, Joseph and Rose, talking about discrimination against the Irish and showing them newspaper clippings from the Boston press where the letters NINA (“No Irish Need Apply”) were splashed on want ads for job opportunities. These young Kennedys came to understand that when Grandpa Joe was appointed ambassador to England back in 1938, it had been a real victory considering it had been just two generations since the family was of Irish peasantry. The way Grandpa had advanced in society while carving out his fortune in the Manhattan banking industry, on Wall Street, in politics, and, later, even in Hollywood would always inspire them.
Read on: http://www.thehistoryreader.com/modern-history/the-kennedy-heirs-a-legacy-of-courage/
In this D-Day Story, Giles Milton (Writer) discusses a young American captain who was destined to play a vital role in the beach landings on June 6, 1944. Read on: http://www.thehistoryreader.com/military-history/d-day-what-happened-on-the-eve-of-d-day/
May 24, 2019 marks the 200th birthday of Queen Victoria!
Look back on Victoria's early days in Kensington Palace with this excerpt from Lucy Worsley's QUEEN VICTORIA: Twenty-Four Days That Changed Her Life: http://bit.ly/QueenVictoriaTHR
'I will be good': Kensington Palace, March 11, 1830 — Read an excerpt of Lucy Worsley's Queen Victoria: Twenty-Four Days That Changed Her Life
General Eisenhower and the architects of D-Day knew that the Allied landings would only be successful if they had up-to-the-minute information about the German coastal defenses. Read on: http://bit.ly/D-DayOpTarbrushX
The architects of D-Day: learn about Operation Tarbrush X, French spies, and the agents that risked their lives for the Allied forces.
In REVOLUTIONARY BROTHERS, Tom Chaffin casts fresh light on the remarkable, often complicated, four-decade friendship of Thomas Jefferson and the Marquis de Lafayette.
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WATCH: Rick Atkinson, best-selling author and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, in "George Washington, A Novice General" for George Washington's Mount Vernon.
Rick Atkinson's new book, THE BRITISH ARE COMING, is now available wherever books are sold.
At the start of the Revolutionary War, it had been seventeen years since General George Washington last wore a military uniform and he was only a provincial ...
"The fateful news traveled swiftly on the post road from Philadelphia, covering more than ninety miles and crossing five rivers in just a couple of days. Precise copies were then made of the thirteen-hundred-word broadside, titled “A Declaration,” that arrived at the Mortier mansion headquarters, and by Tuesday, July 9, General Washington was ready for every soldier in his command to hear what Congress had to say." Read on: http://bit.ly/2YplxVq
by Rick Atkinson The fateful news traveled swiftly on the post road from Philadelphia, covering more than ninety miles and crossing five rivers in just a couple of days. Precise copies were then made of the thirteen-hundred-word broadside, titled “A…Read more ›
"Upon his arrival in Washington, it was both natural and expectable that Johnson would want to learn how things worked in the nation’s capital--the relationships and sources of power--just as he had at Johnson City, San Marcos, and Cotulla. The task, of course, was more formidable. Many a small-town giant had been swallowed up by a city whose concerns were as varied as the affairs and populace of the nation. Nevertheless, to Johnson, the activating principles were much the same. If he had more to learn than ever before, that meant only that there was no time to waste."
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by Doris Kearns Goodwin Updated for 2019 with a new foreword from the author, Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream is an extraordinary and insightful biography of the former president. This book traces the 36th president’s life…Read more ›
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When builders pounded the golden spike at Promontory Point, Utah, on May 10, 1869, they opened a new era in transportation. But long train trips required innovations in passenger cars. Sleeping cars operated by the Pullman Palace Car Company solved a problem and influenced American taste for decades to come. Read on: http://bit.ly/2J96BqQ
This year marks the 150th anniversary of the completion of the first transcontinental railroad.
They were the two most famous plainsmen of the American West, and they shared the same first name. Well, sort of... William Cody came to be known as Buffalo Bill and James Butler Hickok came to be known as Wild Bill.
Learn more about the friendship between Wild Bill and Buffalo Bill in the latest post from author Tom Clavin: http://bit.ly/2V98u8I
Still looking for the perfect Mother's Day gift? Enter for a chance to win a signed copy of THE LEAGUE OF WIVES by Heath Hardage Lee! This page-turning work of narrative non-fiction tells the true story of the military wives who battled Washington—and Hanoi—to bring their husbands home from the jungles of Vietnam.
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"As the author of a mystery series, when I decided to tackle the Italian American experience at the turn of the 20th century, I became acutely aware of two things: most of my adored images came from mob movies—and many Italian Americans had serious issues with those movies and the way they sold the image of Italians as career criminals, incapable of following the laws and customs of the United States. Some of the books I read on the Italian American history in New York avoided all but the briefest mention of the mafia altogether, refusing to dignify what the authors saw as exploitative and damaging myth."
Read on in The History Behind the Mystery: http://bit.ly/2Idovbv
Tom Clavin, the bestselling author of DODGE CITY, returns to the Wild West with WILD BILL—and we're offering a chance to win a FREE hardcover copy!
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To most Americans, Frank Hamer is known only as the “villain” of the 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde. In TEXAS RANGER, historian John Boessenecker sets out to restore Hamer’s good name and prove that he was, in fact, a classic American hero.
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THE ROYAL ART OF POISON is a work of pop history that traces the use of poison as a political—and cosmetic—tool in the royal courts of Western Europe from the Middle Ages to the Kremlin today. Order your copy: https://read.macmillan.com/lp/royal-art-of-poison/
The official book trailer for President Carter: The White House Years by Stuart E. Eizenstat. PRESIDENT CARTER presents an intimate, first-hand comprehensive history of the Carter Administration, one of the most unappreciated, but most consequential and accomplished one-term presidencies in modern American history. Eizenstat, Carter's Chief Domestic Policy Adviser, draws upon on more than 7,500 pages of notes and 350 interviews of all the major figures of the time to show where Carter succeeded, where he failed, and how he set up many successes of later presidents. On sale April 24, 2018 from St. Martin's Press — Order a copy: http://bit.ly/PresCarterBook
For many people today, June 6th may seem like just another day of the year, as the events of our history distance themselves by generations. For the citizens of Normandy, France, however, it's a day that will live on in the past and the present forever. Jon Pruett has more. Sound bites from Raymond Fary, WWII Veteran, 80th Airborne AA Battalion, Dominique J. Vanhaeren, WWII Reenactor, Normandy Memory Club. Credit: Sgt. Jonathon Pruett, DVIDSHUB.
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