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When Bram Met Walt
Before conjuring Dracula, Bram Stoker poured his soul out to America's poet.
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Remarkable Radical: Thaddeus Stevens
Thaddeus Stevens was a fearsome reformer, who never backed down from a fight.
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Humboldt in the New World
Journeying through South America, Alexander von Humboldt sought nothing less than "the unity of nature."
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Children of the Dust
The Dirty Thirties as witnessed by people who were actually there.
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The Other Jefferson Davis
The U.S. Capitol, as we know it today, would never have existed without Jefferson Davis.
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Ain’t That the Truth
Webster's Third: The Most Controversial Dictionary in the English Language.
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Mo Yan 101
Sometime in the late 1960s or early seventies, a neighbor told Guan Moye about a writer he knew whose work was so popular...
By James Williford
