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Eliot Ness and Al Capone - both men were sons of immigrants. One lived with his family at 10811 S. Prairie Avenue. The other bought a house at 7244 S. ...  View More

Robert Caro’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book makes public what few outsiders knew: that Robert Moses was the single most powerful man of his time in New ...  View More

Seventy-five years after the Second World War ended, have we gained enough perspective to understand how it changed the World? In The Fear and the Fre ...  View More

President Trump was not the first president to voice interest in buying Greenland. In 1946, Harry Truman also made an attempt. Greenland said no both ...  View More

How should we understand China’s extraordinary rise in historical terms? How and why has the great renewal of the Chinese nation come about? Klaus Müh ...  View More

The Revolutionary War forms the cornerstone of the creation story of the United States. Join us in revisiting and re-examining this story in a powerfu ...  View More

Thomas Sowell, one of America’s foremost black conservative intellectuals, always strives to deepen our insights into many social and historical issue ...  View More

In orchestrating the return of Russia as a major player on the world’s geopolitical stage, it has been said of Vladimir Putin that he has “played a we ...  View More

For years the Koch brothers have spent their time and influence “freeing American business from the grip of government” (as detailed by Jane Mayer in ...  View More

Eight times in American history vice presidents have ascended to the presidency as a result of the death in office of the president; four times by ass ...  View More

The American Presidency is now occupied by a man with no prior government experience. Two of the last five Presidential elections have gone to the vot ...  View More

No study of American history can be considered complete without dealing with the history and legacy of slavery in American life. From the earliest Col ...  View More