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Individuals who survived both the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and of Nagasaki help frame history of the events and their aftermath.
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Book Review: Voices Of A People’s History Of The United States by Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove
A history of those who protested, dissented, and spoke out for the rights we now take for granted.
Read More »Book Review: The Fall of the West: The Slow Death of the Roman Superpower by Adrian Goldsworthy
A narrative history informed by the latest research that gets to its theories only at the end.
Read More »Book Review: Thames: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd
The Thames: Its history as a highway, frontier, and both a public river and a scene of deep private contentment.
Read More »President Obama, Global Hunger, and the Christmas Before the Marshall Plan
President Obama has pledged to fight hunger. But words need to be put into action.
Read More »Food Can Write the Peace in Afghanistan
Food is clearly the foundation desperately needed by Afghanistan.
Read More »Card Game Review: Chrononauts
Tinkering with history is always a blast and so is this card game
Read More »Music Review: Stace England And The Salt Kings – The Amazing Oscar Micheaux
Once again England has taken an overlooked piece of American history and opened our eyes to what we've been missing.
Read More »Book Review: The English Rebel: One Thousand Years of Troublemaking, From the Normans to the Nineties by David Horspool
Everything from medieval aristocrats to the Greenham Common protest, which makes for a bit of a muddle
Read More »DVD Review: Blackadder Remastered – The Ultimate Edition
“The Ultimate Edition” is just about the ultimate Blackadder experience.
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