The Vikings: Pioneers in the Land of Ice
The Vikings sailed to Iceland not as raiders but as settlers. They sought farmland and goods with which to trade. For the land-hungry Norwegians, the call of the new country, where... Read More
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The Vikings: Discoverers of a New World
Perhaps the most legendary of the Vikings, Erik the Red founded a settlement in Greenland that would survive for nearly five centuries. His son Leif burned with the same desire to ... Read More
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The Vikings: From Marauders to Slavers
The Vikings thought of themselves as the ultimate warriors. But this one-dimensional image belies considerable complexity. They were, in fact, as much merchants as marauders. Among... Read More
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The Vikings
In the eighth century, The Vikings, the water-borne warriors of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, conquered much of the British Isles. They pillaged the coast of France, pushed inland t... Read More
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The Vikings: Conquering England, France, and Ireland
When the Vikings invaded and conquered England, France, and Ireland, it opened a new and fascinating chapter in the era of the Norsemen. The nature and history of the beset lands, ... Read More
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The Renaissance of Lorenzo de Medici
Lorenzo de' Medici was never an old man. He died in 1492 at the age of forty-three. He came to power in fifteenth-century Florence at the age of twenty. In the twenty-odd years of ... Read More
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The Vikings: Conquering the Wind and Waves
A terror to the outside world, Viking longships were a source of great and understandable pride to Norsemen. At a time when the majority of men and women in the West lived and died... Read More
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Matthew Ridgway: The Soldier's General
The greatest American general of the twentieth century wasn't Dwight Eisenhower or George Patton or Douglas MacArthur. The honor, according to New York Times bestselling h... Read More
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The Life of Madame Mao
A peculiar facet of China's history is that its greatest villains have often been women. The evil Empress Wu lives on in legend, as does another ogre: the "White-Boned Demon," Mada... Read More
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Benjamin Franklin: Daring the Lightning
Benjamin Franklin was, without question, one of the most extraordinary men the world has ever known. One of seventeen children of a Boston candlemaker, he had only one year of form... Read More
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The Vikings: Fury From the North
Much about the Vikings remains a mystery - including the very name by which they are known. Whatever its origin, the word Viking quickly acquired a meaning it has never lost: a sea... Read More
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1836: Sam Houston Battles Santa Anna
During an extraordinary eighteen minutes on an April afternoon in 1836, the Battle of San Jacinto took place just east of what is today Houston, Texas. With that clash, a crucial p... Read More
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The Other D-Day
Popular historians have seldom written about the "other D-Day." But the massive invasion of the French Riviera - just weeks after the Normandy invasion of 1944 - opened up the key ... Read More
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The Black Death
In the 1300s, a third of the population of Europe died of plague carried by rat-borne fleas, shocking the medieval world to its foundations. “Very rarely,” award-winning author... Read More
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Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin Remake the World
In diplomatic history, there is perhaps no better example of the rule of unintended consequences than the Yalta Conference, the 1945 meeting between the president of the United Sta... Read More
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Vanderbilt's Biltmore
The original sketch for the Biltmore, George Washington Vanderbilt’s grand estate in the mountains near Asheville, North Carolina, laid out plans for a modest Tuscan villa. But a... Read More
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The Pope Vs. Attila the Hun
When Pope Leo the Great rode out of Rome in 452 A.D. to meet Attila the Hun, he had no arms, no army, no armor, no bodyguards, no great retinue of ambassadors and advisers, advance... Read More
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1492: In Columbus' Time
We think of the period when Christopher Columbus traveled to the New World as a Golden Age of exploration and discovery capped by bold journeys across uncharted seas, archaeologica... Read More
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The President and The Madman
Modern Americans are accustomed to "the insanity defense," but what if a madman shot the president? During the Victorian Era? In this brief gripping account, award-winning author B... Read More
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Jefferson's Monticello
Virginia's Monticello was President Thomas Jefferson’s home for the last fifty-six years of his life. The author of the Constitution of the United States spent forty of those yea... Read More
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