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The American experiment rests on three ideas-"these truths", Jefferson called them-political equality, natural rights and the sovereignty of the people. And it rests, too ...
All textiles begin with a twist. From colourful 30,000-year old threads found on the floor of a Georgian cave to what the linen wrappings ...
In the wake of one of the most tumultuous conventions in Republican history, the party of Lincoln nominated in 1940 a prominent businessman and Wall ...
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William Gladstone was, with Tennyson, Newman, Dickens, Carlyle, and Darwin, one of the stars of nineteenth-century British ...
Americans who remember World War II reminisce about how it brought the country together. The less popular truth behind this warm nostalgia: until the attack ...
A potent pantheon of gods, heroes engaged in epic battles, fearsome mythical creatures and supernatural transformations such fantastical elements infuse Greek myths with a wonder ...
The history of the Fabii Maximii is in many ways that of the Roman Republic. In the legends and historical scraps that survived the Republic ...
Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the ...
Michael Palin Monty Python star and television globetrotter brings the remarkable Erebus back to life, following it from its launch in 1826 to the epic ...
In Antony Cummins' new work, the hidden life of Old Japan is brought to the fore using newly translated original documents from the times of ...
A short, focused history of the politics of Reconstruction in a changing America. On December 5, 1876, President Ulysses S. Grant transmitted his eighth and ...
Gandhi lived one of the great 20th-century lives. He inspired and enraged, challenged and delighted many million men and women around the world. He lived ...
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