Robert Colby is a historian at the University of Mississippi. His first book, An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil ...

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who historians believe to have been executed via firing squad along with the rest of the Russian Imperial Romanov family during the Russian Civil War. Instead, Smith is considered to be one of ...

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Nearly 10 years ago, the New York University professor, historian and Pulitzer Prize winner was sitting in historic First Congregational Church, admiring a triptych of stained glass windows installed ...

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Vance's grandparents left Kentucky for Ohio – motivated by economic opportunity and a pregnancy scandal, Vance writes in his book – and ... president since the Civil War.