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BookMark: “The Quartet: Orchestrating The Second American Revolution, 1783-1789” By Joseph J. Ellis.I've always been interested in history, but in high school I found American history to be incredibly boring. It was often presented as a black and white…
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“To everything there is a season,” Ecclesiastes tells us. Katherine Bode-Lang, local poet and national winner of the Honickman First Book Prize,…
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This essay originally aired January 28, 2016. When Stephen Colbert was hosting his satirical news program on Comedy Central, he christened Father James…
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At the beginning of the book “These Shallow Graves,” Jo Montfort’s father is found dead. As a member of the Old Money, upper-class New York social scene,…
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Time Underground by Todd McClimans is an historical novel written for middle schoolers, but don’t let that stop you from experiencing this exciting,…
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I was intrigued to hear about a new book that seeks to reconcile the seemingly contradictory legacies of former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Greg…
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Natalie Harnett’s The Hollow Ground is part family saga, part historical novel, part literary mystery, and all parts good reading. Set in the early…
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As a coal miner’s granddaughter, the title of Marilyn Nesbit Wood’s memoir, The Day the Whistle Blew intrigued me. The subtitle is The Life and Death of…
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There is a new essential read for anyone interested in human evolution. An important question in this debate has always been why did modern humans survive…
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Full disclosure first - I am a devout John Green fan. I’ve read all his books. I follow him on Twitter just to see when the next one is coming out (hurry…