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  • 23 Oct 2014
    Caroline M.

    Things That Go Bump in the Night

    Our Cambridge Library Collection publisher Caroline M. explores the history of everyone's favorite October holiday—it's not just American commercialism, but a celebration steeped in European tradition as the "Eve of All Hallows."

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  • 3 Sep 2014
    Jamie Kreiner

    Dark Humor in the Dark Ages

    We don't think of the Middle Ages as particularly humorous, but it turns out we've been wrong all along! Jamie Kreiner, the author of The Social Life of Hagiography in the Merovingian Kingdom, explores early (and unfamiliar) comedy, with some jokes along the way.

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  • 27 Aug 2014

    Famous Faces of World War I

    Explore some figures from the battlefields of the Great War, from the Red Baron and Mata Hari to the Harlem Hell Fighters.

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  • 20 Aug 2014
    David Woodward

    America the Unready

    David Woodward, the author of The American Army and the First World War, explains why the United States was so late to participate in the Great War and why the war was one of the most devastating the U.S. army ever faced.

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  • 13 Aug 2014

    Europe, 1914: A Puzzle

    Before the conflict of World War I and the 1919 Treaty of Versailles, Europe was a very different place. Can you solve the puzzle below to assemble a map of Europe in 1914? Look out for the German Empire and Austria-Hungary, and good luck finding Poland!

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  • 8 Aug 2014
    A Literary Disclosure
    Rosalind Grooms

    Preserving World War I in Words

    Rosalind Grooms pulls An Outline History of the Great War out of the Press Archive and tells the fascinating story behind it.

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  • 5 Aug 2014
    Michael A. Livingston

    The Race Laws After 75 Years

    Michael A. Livingston, the author of The Fascists and the Jews of Italy, draws parallels between Mussolini's Italian Race Laws and sentiment about immigration through the ages—from the Jim Crow American South to today's Europe.

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  • 4 Aug 2014
    Craig Gibson

    Into the Intro: Behind the Front

    If you enjoyed Craig Gibson's post last Monday on researching life in the trenches in WWI, take a look at the introduction to his book, Behind the Front, and get the full story about Major Arthur Murray Jarvis.

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