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02/17/2025

"[UNION GENERAL] utilizes many newly discovered primary sources to weave a well-written and balanced history of Curtis, his family, and the United States during an important period," writes David Marshall for the Army Historical Foundation.

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01/27/2025

ALL ROADS LEAD TO ROME by Bill Thorness "succeeds as both a study of the history of the bloody and under-appreciated war which drove the German army from the Italian peninsula prior to D-Day and as a Rick Steves-type modern day travelogue," writes Lincoln Journal Star.

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“All Roads Lead to Rome,” explores the author's relationship with his taciturn and alcoholic father who died in 1969, through the means of letters and then investigation.

01/23/2025

From the Desk of Terrence C. Petty: N***S AT THE WATERCOOLER

Petty's book chronicles a historic injustice quieted by German officials and abetted by the CIA: the ease with which N**i war criminals were able to land jobs in the postwar civil service.

Terrence C. Petty is a writer and retired journalist. He worked for the Associated Press for thirty-five years. Based in Bonn, Germany, from 1987 to 1997, he covered German and European affairs, th…

01/21/2025

THE CHIEF RABBI'S FUNERAL by Scott D. Seligman was featured in The New York Jewish Week!

In 1902, a funeral procession for a prominent rabbi turned into a melee in which nearly 200 Jews were injured.

01/15/2025

From the Desk of Katya Cengel: Southeast Asian Refugees 50 Years Later

Cengel is the authof or EXILED which tells the story of four Cambodian families as they confront deportation forty years after their resettlement in the United States.

Katya Cengel is a freelance writer based in San Luis Obispo, California, and lectures in the Journalism Department of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. Her work has appeared…

01/13/2025

Excerpt: THE CHIEF RABBI'S FUNERAL by Scott D. Seligman

THE CHIEF RABBI'S FUNERAL recounts the largest antisemitic riot in American history: the attack on Jewish mourners during the 1902 funeral of Chief Rabbi Jacob Joseph.

Scott D. Seligman is a writer and historian. He is the national award-winning author of numerous books, including The Great Kosher Meat War of 1902 (Potomac Books, 2020) and Murder in Manchuria (Po…

01/08/2025

THE CHIEF RABBI'S FUNERAL by Scott D. Seligman "is cleverly structured for both the casual reader and the serious scholar," writes Paul D. Pearlstein for the Washington Independent Review of Books.

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01/07/2025

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12/26/2024

UNSUNG HERO OF GETTYSBURG explores the services of the honorable but neglected general of the Potomac Army, David McMurtrie Gregg, during Gettysburg, the pivotal battle of the Civil War.

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12/20/2024

A true-life detective story about the search for the missing members of the Romanov royal family, murdered by Bolsheviks in 1918, and one family’s involvement in the hundred-year-old forensic investigation into their deaths.

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12/13/2024

THE GAS AND FLAME MEN is the first full account of Major League ballplayers who served in the Chemical Warfare Service during World War I.

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12/09/2024

THE CHIEF RABBI'S FUNERAL recounts the largest antisemitic riot in American history: the horrific attack on Jewish mourners by factory workers and police on New York’s Lower East Side during the 1902 funeral of Chief Rabbi Jacob Joseph.

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12/06/2024

Aramís Calderón’s memoir explores how his father’s undeniable love for his family despite drug addiction, lawlessness, and toxic masculinity informed Aramís’s rebellious decision to join the Marines.

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12/05/2024

When a slim packet of his father’s letters came to light after his mother’s death, Bill Thorness began a quest to rediscover his father, who was an army commando battling in Italy to liberate Rome in World War II.

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11/29/2024

Prudence Bushnell, the U.S. ambassador to Nairobi when al-Qaeda unleashed its devastating bomb attack in August 1998, gives her account of what happened, how it happened, and its impact twenty years later.

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11/19/2024

"In a world full of catastrophes, ongoing crises, and local and increasingly generalized wars, to know that such heroism exists. . . offers huge hope and motivation. MOLYVOS is definitely worth reading," writes H-Net Reviews.

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11/13/2024

CHASING CYNTHIANA by Lynn Marie Hamilton reveals hidden pockets of wine obsession in rural America and explores why the U.S. wine industry, outside California, lags behind Europe’s.

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11/11/2024

As we honor and remember the sacrifices of our Veterans, we keep returning to this essay from Stephen R. Dundas: A Meditation on Veterans Day.

Steven L. Dundas has served thirty-nine years in the U.S. Army and Navy. He is a former assistant professor at the Joint Forces Staff College, National Defense University, and a retired chaplain wi…