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It’s a story of World War II but it’s also a story of politics, power, seduction, and intrigue. Did I leave anything out?Pamela Churchill Harriman did...

The 20th century American department store: a palace of consumption where shopping meant something more than simply getting what one needed. Every maj...

The overriding message you get after reading the essays collected by Julian Zelizer, a Princeton University history professor, and Karen Greenberg, di...

By now most of us have heard of some of the daring deeds executed by the special operations teams that worked undercover during WWII. Shannon Monaghan...

When Ellie Laks found herself communicating with animals early on, she said she didn't think anything of it. But as Laks, continuing with her communic...

Anyone around youngsters knows that among the many benefits is reading children’s books—to your child or to yourself.Children’s literature offers stor...

On June 24, 1946, a bus carrying 16 members of the Spokane Indians baseball team careened off a mountain pass in Washington’s Cascade mountains, killi...

Among the digital giants that we've probably come to take for granted is the all-knowing Wikipedia site.Stephen Harrison has taken notice. In fact, fo...

As one of the Four Horsemen of the Noir Apocalypse (the others being Dashiell Hammett, James Cain, and Cornell Woolrich), Raymond Chandler has a uniqu...

Matthew Algeo got the idea for writing The President is a Sick Man after visiting Philadelphia's Mutter Museum where the tumor removed from the mouth ...

Radio drama was declared dead in September 1962 after CBS axed its last two network shows, Suspense, and Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar.Hold on, said Elea...

Bicycle racing was a legitimate spectator sport in the 1890s. Big crowds gathered in cities across America and Europe to watch men and women compete i...