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On June 6, 1944, the largest military operation in history got underway in northern France as more than 150, 000 Allied troops began the invasion of German-occupied Western Europe. D-Day: The Story o …

A story told by diaries, of a young woman’s recruitment into military intelligence from a jail cell. Involved as a child in the CIA’s MK-Ultra projects, her assignment was to become involved with a n …

Franklin Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan were the two most consequential and successful Presidents of the 20th Century. Most casual observers today think of them as polar opposites in their views on gove …

Roy Whain did what hundreds of others have done, following in the hoofprints of his father and grandfather when he joined the Cavalry of the United States Army. But his service in the Great War would …

Over the last century, the industrialization of agriculture and processing technologies have made food abundant and relatively inexpensive for much of the world’s population. Simultaneously, pesticid …

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Multiculturalism as a distinct form of liberal-democratic governance gained widespread acceptance after World …

Countless studies have assessed the dramatic reforms of Mikhail Gorbachev, but their analysis of the impact on European communism has focused overwhelmingly on the Soviet Union and Eastern bloc natio …

An international history of the uncanny in the 1920s and 1930s. The interwar period was a golden age for the occult. Spiritualists, clairvoyants, fakirs, Theosophists, mind readers, and Jinn summoner …

The best-known songs in the world are violent, sexist, and religious — so why do we celebrate national anthems when we should be rewriting them? The story begins in a London theatre in 1745, where th …

The expulsion and mass murder of the ethnic Germans in Poland before and at the start of World War Two was by no means restricted to the Bloody Sunday of Bromberg, a massacre that is all too often do …