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So Help Me God: The Founding Fathers and the First Great Battle Over Church and State
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Culture wars are nothing new, as Church demonstrates ably in this study of the tenure of America’s first five presidents. Our nation’...Read Review
Scotland: The Autobiography: 2000 Years of Scottish History by Those Who Saw It Happen
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This splendid account presents Scotland’s history in the words of the people who lived it: from the first century until the present ...Read Review
Hatfield’s Herbal
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To ensure your partner’s fidelity, ladies, sprinkle over his chest a mixture prepared from butterbur, foxglove, royal fern and an old man’...Read Review
Evidence Explained: Citing History Source from Artifacts to Cyberspace
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This citation guide has two goals: first, to provide citation examples for as many types of sources as possible (especially those not covered ...Read Review
An Utterly Impartial History of Britain
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This is essentially 1066 and All That for the 21st century. John O’Farrell, who is better known for his Guardian articles and novels ...Read Review
The Holy Well
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This fascinating novel portrays the lives of two men from two different time periods: Bren from the late Bronze Age, who lives in ...Read Review
People of the Book
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This wonderful gem has convinced me to put Geraldine Brooks’s other novels on my to-be-read list. Set both in the mid-1990s ...Read Review
The Bone Garden
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This story begins in present-day Boston, where Julia Hamill is newly divorced. While working in the overgrown garden of her new home, she ...Read Review
Sanctuary
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The Knights Templar again, with another secret they have guarded across the centuries: the elixir of life, no less. However, the Templars seem ...Read Review
The Melancholy Fate of Capt. Lewis
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This is a story about Meriwether Lewis, who embarked in 1804 on his famous expedition with William Clark. He died, presumably by suicide, a ...Read Review