Robert Wernick
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 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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The South Sea Bubble
At the end of the seventeenth century, English investors began to see money-making in a new light. A piece of paper – a share or a bond - could be as profitable as holdings in la... 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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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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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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Pepper, A History
What in the world could be so extraordinary about pepper that men willingly died for it?
If you enlarge your historical horizon a bit, and look back just a few centuries, there is... Read More
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Roquefort, A History
Roquefort is a unique product. Anyone can make a cheese with holes in it and call it Swiss. Anyone can mix mold with curdling milk and produce a cheese that he or she can call “b... Read More
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Marshall V. Jefferson: The Case Before The Court
Thomas Jefferson and John Marshall – though second cousins – were opposites.
Jefferson believed in states’ rights - that the colonies that ratified the Constitution did so a... Read More
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Ludwig Bemelmans: The Man Who Created Madeline
Creators of the eternal images of children’s books have usually been quiet, retiring, private individuals, like the Reverend Mr. Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll, who gave ... Read More
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Herman Melville: The Man Who Created Moby Dick
More and more readers, and droves of scholars, are turning to the pages of Moby Dick (and other masterpieces by Herman Melville) for an excursion into the world of the great Americ... Read More
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Yalta: Witness To History
The images are seared in our memory from World War II: photographs of Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin seated together in a marble courtyard at Yalta. As th... Read More
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