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Zepaniah Bierman, a mustanger turned hunter, lies on the top of the rocky sandy arroyo. Sweat trickles down his face and stains the shirt across his back as the sun beats daggers of heat on the Chihu …

Damon Di Marco’s Tower Stories: An Oral History of 9/11 (20th Anniversary Commemorative Edition), eternally preserves a monumental tragedy in American history through the voices of the people who wer …

A history of the United States’ systematic expulsion of ‘undesirables’ and immigrants, told through the lives of the passengers  who travelled from around the world, only to be locked up and for …

Bedlam erupted among 1, 500 ecstatic supporters when Bobby and Ethel Kennedy appeared. Looking tanned and rested, he stepped to the rostrum and pulled from his breast pocket an envelope on which he h …

One of Smithsonian Magazine’s Favorite Books of 2022 This history reveals how radical threats to the United States empire became seditious threats to national security and exposes the antiradical and …

With its signature ‘DARE to keep kids off drugs’ slogan and iconic t-shirts, DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) was the most popular drug education program of the 1980s and 1990s. But behind the …

The holiday eve festivities in the dingy, second floor speakeasy showed no signs of abating as the clock neared three that Fourth of July morning in 1925. The orchestra had just finished a lively rag …

Founded as a local college ministry in 1951, Campus Crusade for Christ has become one of the world’s largest evangelical organizations, today boasting an annual budget of more than $500 million. Nond …

The American Civil War was a crucial event in the development of Chicago as the metropolis of the heartland. Not only did Chicagoans play an important role in the politics of the conflict, encouragin …

Charles Holbrook Prentiss (1830-1924), my fathers great uncle by marriage, wrote many letters home while serving in the 19th Michigan Volunteer Infantry between 1862 and 1865. These letters came to m …