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"When the Declaration of Independence Was News" with author Emily Sneff Jul 27, 2026

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In 1776 people could hear the Declaration of Independence proclaimed in public squares and could read it in the pages of their local newspapers. Learn the stories behind how the Declaration was communicated in the United States and around the Atlantic.

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"Declaring Independence" with author Edward Larson Jul 27, 2026

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At the beginning of 1776, virtually no one in the colonies was advocating independence: Americans based their grievances against Parliament on their rights as British subjects. By the end of 1776, independence was on every patriot's lips. Author, Edward Larson gives us a compact, insightful history of that pivotal year.

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"Little Round Top at Gettysburg" with author Joseph Michael Boslet Jul 20, 2026

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Little Round Top. Three words that resonate in American military history. It was there, at one of the most visited sites on the Gettysburg battlefield, that Confederates tried to turn the left flank of the Army of the Potomac. Little Round Top at Gettysburg: A Reassessment of July 2, 1863 is the first full-length in-depth treatment of this complex bloody affair in two decades.

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"The National Road" with author Brady Crytzer Jul 15, 2026

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The National Road was a federal project that began decades before the nation itself was born and ranged through the 1830s. Starting out as a young Washington's dream of uniting the Potomac and Ohio Rivers, it connected the United States across the Alleghenies and into the western frontier.

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"Guest of Adolf" with author Michael Zang Jun 29, 2026

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Ernest Virgil Focht was a Pennsylvania native and was captured in his first action in February 1943, remaining a prisoner of war until May 1945. During these 27 months he was held in five different POW camps, and was forced to march between camps in the depths of the 1944-45 winter. Lean about Ernie's experiences as a prisoner of war.

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"Rebels at Sea" with author Eric Jay Dolin Jun 10, 2026

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The heroic story of the founding of the U.S. Navy during the Revolution has been told many times, yet largely missing from maritime histories of America's first war is the ragtag fleet of private vessels that truly revealed the new nation's character-above all, its ambition and entrepreneurial ethos.

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"Winning the Ten Crucial Days" with author David Price Jun 03, 2026

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The "Ten Crucial Days" winter campaign of 1776-77 is one of the most storied in the annals of military history. David Price examines this pivotal moment in the American War of Independence through an interpretive framework that focuses on five key factors: leadership, geography, weather, artillery, and contingency.

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"Philadelphia Merchants on Western Waters" with author Kim Gruenwald May 04, 2026

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Why did the Midwest become part of the United States instead of remaining under English, Spanish, or Native control? In Philadelphia Merchants on Western Waters, historian Kim M. Gruenwald reveals commerce and trade, rather than war and political conflict, as the driving force behind America's westward expansion.

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"Rescuing the Republic" with author Andrew Browning Apr 27, 2026

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The first examination of how James Madison and the Annapolis Convention defied all odds and expectations to begin the near-impossible process of restructuring the federal government and worked to bring the republic back from the brink of collapse.

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"King of the Gun Runners" with author Jim Miller Apr 10, 2026

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Hear the untold story of a forgotten American, John Hart, whose adventures helped pave the way for the United States' emergence as an international power. For nearly three years, Hart became the most visible of a disparate group of mariners between New York and Key West who tormented Spanish authorities, riled the US government, and became heroes to an oppressed people fighting to be free.

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