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Topic: History (page 43)

"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

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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

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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

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

John Keats and Mary Shelley

Bohemians behaving badly

When physics got spooky

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul gestures while speaking at a Republican dinner in Georgetown, Ky., Saturday, May 15, 2010. (AP Photo/Ed Reinke) (Associated Press)

Rand Paul's dopey defenders

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Brian O'Donnell, left, and Robert Kuhn, right, both from Phoenix, stand with dozens rallying in favor of the possible signing of immigration bill SB1070 by Gov. Jan Brewer as hundreds rallied in opposition to it Friday, April 23, 2010, in Phoenix. The sweeping measure would make it a crime under state law to be in the country illegally, and would require local law enforcement to question people about their immigration status if there is reason to suspect they are in the country illegally. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin) (AP)

Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich addresses the Southern Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans, Thursday, April 8, 2010. This is the opening session of the four day conference. (AP Photo/Bill Haber) (AP)

The right's bizarre Founding Fathers fetish

Michael Winship

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The Last Stand, by Nathaniel Philbrick

The Pilgrims nobody knows

"Russia Against Napoleon"

Meredith Hindley

James Earl Ray after being arrested for the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

The creep who killed Martin Luther King Jr.

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