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Topic: History (page 42)

Zinie Chen Sampson

Christopher Hickey

Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow

Left: Chicago mobster Al Capone. Right: Stephen Graham as Al Capone in "Boardwalk Empire"

The real inglourious basterds

The war hero history forgot

Associated Press

James D. Cannon holds a family photo that shows his grandfather, Claude Cannon, seated in the front row far left, who was killed in the Chiquola Mill shooting in 1934 were 7 people died and over 34 people injured over labor unions that the mill didn't want.(AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain) (Mary Ann Chastain)

"A Short History of Celebrity" by Fred Inglis

Probing the origins of modern celebrity

Huntington gives Nazi papers to National Archives

"Bomber County" by Daniel Swift

Why are we willing to repeat history's mistakes?

FILE - In this May 4, 2010 file photo, Fox News Channel's Glenn Beck attends the TIME 100 gala celebrating the 100 most influential people, at the Time Warner Center in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, file) (AP)

"Fur, Fortune, and Empire" by Eric Jay Dolin

How the fur trade shaped America

A Gilded Age murder

"Pliny the Younger: Complete Letters," by P.G. Walsh (Cains)

Dispatches from the end of Pompeii

The runaway princess of Zanzibar

"Tocqueville's Discovery of America," by Leo Damrosch

George Will and Leo Strauss

Armenian school girls hold signs as they demonstrate in front of the Israeli Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem in October, 2007.

Turkey loses its Israeli genocide-denying pals

"Cro-Magnon," by Brian Fagan

"American Insurgents, American Patriots," by T. H. Breen

John Keats and Mary Shelley

Bohemians behaving badly

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