
Abolitionist Brooklyn: A Sanctuary City Before Its Time
Separated from Southern-sympathizing Manhattan, Brooklyn had one of the largest and most politically aware Black communities in the U.S.
Separated from Southern-sympathizing Manhattan, Brooklyn had one of the largest and most politically aware Black communities in the U.S.
U.S. Navy brought situation on itself by granting captains "letters of marque" to harass Spanish ships
Every half century or so comes a book in a particular field or area of history that is monumental, that immediately becomes the authority on that subject.
Roving merchant and slave trader approved of bondage system but saw freedmen as linchpin
Long before it became Margaritaville, Key West was a boom town built on bad news
Journalist and novelist railed against injustice, covered combat—and gave Ernest Hemingway the boot
Sidney Gottlieb ran a workshop dedicated to assassination—and mind control
For a century and a half, wealthy northerners built their fortunes off sugar, rum, and human misery
Readers sound off about an Italian memento from World War II and kamikaze pilots
Coalition of slaveholders and conservative abolitionists offered black Americans a land of 'liberty'
The carrier-operable Corsair came to dominate the Pacific skies during World War II.
After sharing Nobel Prize, Ken Rutherford wrote a history of Civil War explosive devices
Joel Adam Struthers relates his rigorous training and exploits as a French Foreign Legionnaire in 1990s Africa
In 1901 Lieutenant Harry ‘Breaker’ Morant went on a killing spree in South Africa after the death of his friend and comrade in arms
The Rommel biography focuses more on the general's North Africa adventures than on fresh scholarship.
In 1965 Rhodesia’s white-minority government went rogue, sparking a war whose reverberations have left a nation in anguish