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Madame De Maintenon by Veronica Buckley: A Biography of the Secret Wife of Louis XIV

By: Erin Britton

Robert Peel by Douglas Hurd: A Biography of the Famous Prime Minister and Political Reformer

By: Erin Britton

Book Review: Breaking the Bank: The Tale of Australia’s Greatest Bank Robbery by Carol Baxter

By: Feature Writer Susan Whelan

The Fears of Henry IV by Ian Mortimer: The Life of England's Self-Made King

By: Erin Britton

Book Review - Young Men and Fire: Norman Maclean reconstructs tragedy in Mann Gulch, Montana

By: Scott Jackman

America's Hidden History: Book Review: Author Kenneth C. Davis details untold tales of a nation's birth

By: Carla Slavey

Book Review: Mayflower, Nathaniel Philbrick: The Tale of the Pilgrims and Indians as They Really Were

By: Feature Writer L. Shepherd

William Wilberforce by William Hague: The Life of the Great Anti-Slave Trade Campaigner

By: Erin Britton

Crazy Horse-Sioux Hero: Strange Man of the Oglalas, Biography, by Mari Sandoz, Book Review

By: Jeannie Delahunt

A Review of Young Stalin: Simon Sebag Montefiore’s Account of the Youth of the Red Tsar

By: Erin Britton

Sylvia, Queen of the Headhunters: A Review of Philip Eade's Biography of the Last Ranee of Sarawak

By: Erin Britton

The Whisperers by Orlando Figes: An Account of Private Life in Stalin’s Russia

By: Erin Britton

Galileo's Daughter: A Unique Perspective on Galileo's Life

By: Feature Writer Stephanie Cox

The Black Dahlia Files Book Review: Author Donald Wolfe Unravels the Murder of Elizabeth Short

By: Feature Writer Tami Port

Singled Out by Virginia Nicholson: How Two Million Women Survived Without Men after the First World War

By: Erin Britton

A History of Modern Britain: Journalist Andrew Marr Chronicles the Development of a Nation

By: Erin Britton

Philip Sugden on Jack the Ripper: Book Review: The Complete History of Jack the Ripper

By: Feature Writer Tami Port

Servants of the Supernatural: Antonio Melechi Explores the Night Side of the Victorian Mind

By: Erin Britton

Nostalgic for Empire: Pat Buchanan and the Lost Glories of Empire

By: Robert O'Connor

A Compendium of British History: Book Review: Robert Lacey’s Great Tales of English History

By: Feature Writer Susan Whelan

Review of Smoot's Ear: Robert Tavernor Explores the History of Measurement

By: Feature Writer Isaac M. McPhee

The Translator by Daoud Hari: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur

By: Erin Britton

Fusiliers by Mark Urban: How the British Army Lost America but Learned to Fight

By: Erin Britton

Book Review: Sacred Places by Ken Inglis: Importance and Place of War Memorials in the Australian Culture

By: Feature Writer Susan Whelan

Book Review: 101 Crimes of the Century: A Compilation of True Crime Stories by Alan J. Whiticker

By: Feature Writer Susan Whelan

Defying Hitler: One Man's Experience in Nazi Germany

By: Michael LeFlem

The Gulag Archipelago: Soviet Terror and Supression

By: Michael LeFlem

The Forgotten Children: David Hill: An Account of the History and Impact of Fairbridge Farm, Molong

By: Feature Writer Susan Whelan

God's War by Christopher Tyerman: A Review of This New History of the Crusades

By: Erin Britton

Agent Zigzag by Ben Macintyre: The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman: Lover, Traitor, Hero, Spy

By: Erin Britton

Elizabeth & Leicester: Sarah Gristwood's Account of Elizabeth I and Robert Dudley

By: Erin Britton

Jane Boleyn by Julia Fox: A Review of the New Biography of the Infamous Lady Rochford

By: Erin Britton

Successor to the Medieval Romance: The Kings Used to be Heroes. Then Came the Common Man

By: Robert O'Connor

African American Presidents: Historical Significance of Sen. Obama's Campaign for the Presidency

By: William Cook

Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War by T.J. Stiles

By: Jessica Workman

Pioneer Women by Joanna Stratton: Voices from the Kansas Frontier Sheds New Light on Frontier Women

By: Jessica Workman

Princesses, by Flora Fraser: The Six Daughters of George III

By: Mary Hiers

Great Tales from English History: Review of Volumes 1 & 2 of Robert Lacey’s British Historical Stories

By: Feature Writer Susan Whelan

Sexuality in Medieval Europe: Doing Unto Others: A Book by Ruth Mazo Karras

By: Sarah Pinkerton

They Followed the Trade Winds: African Americans in Hawai’i

By: Sharyn Skeeter

African-American History Month: Candidates for President

By: Sharyn Skeeter

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