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  • Beyond the Longship: Viking Women, Death, and the Afterlife Burial Rites, Revenants, and the Secret Fate of Norse Women, from Hel's Halls to the Oseberg Ship

    by Julia Wolbrook ...
    What happened to a Viking woman when she died?We know the legends of Valhalla, the warrior's hall of feasting and endless battle. But the sagas and the graves hint at a stranger, richer world for the women of the North: a road that winds down through darkness to Hel's gate, a goddess who gathers the dead in her own hall, a mountain where ancestors feast, and a mound where a woman might rise and ... Read more

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  • Midway Reconsidered The Battle That Reshaped Strategy in the Pacific War

    by Julia Wolbrook ...
    For generations, the Battle of Midway has been hailed as the dramatic turning point of the Pacific War, the moment when the United States crushed Japan's naval power and seized the initiative for good. It is one of the most famous battles of the Second World War, a story of codebreakers, daring carrier pilots, and a stunning victory against the odds.But what if the story we think we know is ... Read more

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  • The Eugenics Code How the Quest for Perfect Humans Never Ended

    by Julia Wolbrook ...
    In November 2018, a video appeared online that should not have been possible.A scientist in a lab coat, speaking calmly to a camera, announced something no doctor had ever dared claim before: he had rewritten the DNA of two human babies before they were born. Not treated a disease. Not managed a condition. Rewritten. Edited, at the molecular level, in a way that would pass to their children, and ... Read more

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  • Jim Crow America Laws That Divided, Lives That Resisted

    by Julia Wolbrook ...
    In the shadow of America's rise as a modern nation stood a system designed to divide it, quietly, efficiently, and with devastating precision. Jim Crow America: Laws That Divided, Lives That Resisted is a powerful narrative that uncovers how segregation was not only enforced through law but woven into the fabric of everyday life, shaping where people lived, worked, dreamed, and belonged.Blending ... Read more

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  • Frontier of Violence Chihuahua and the Struggle for Survival

    by Julia Wolbrook ...
    Ninety-five thousand square miles. Barely a hundred thousand souls to hold it. And an enemy that struck like lightning and vanished like smoke.In the decades after Mexico won its independence, while generals and politicians tore the nation apart from the safety of the capital, the people of Chihuahua fought a war no one in Mexico City wanted to see. Apache and Comanche raiders owned the night. ... Read more

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  • Edge of the World Margaret Thatcher and the Fight for the Falklands That Changed the World

    by Julia Wolbrook ...
    At the far edge of the world, a remote chain of windswept islands ignited a war that would change everything.In April 1982, Argentina's military junta launched a sudden invasion of the Falkland Islands, sparking a high-stakes international crisis at the height of the Cold War. For British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, it was the ultimate test of leadership. Her government was faltering, her ... Read more

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  • The Hidden Genocide of America The Untold Story of Native Americans, Cultural Destruction, Resilience, and the Fight for Survival

    by Julia Wolbrook ...
    Prepare to confront a devastating truth lurking beneath the foundational myths of a nation, as "The Hidden Genocide of America" unearths the deliberate, systematic erasure of Native American peoples and cultures. Beyond the battlefields and broken treaties, this powerful narrative illuminates the insidious mechanisms of cultural destruction, from forced assimilation and language suppression to the ... Read more

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  • Black Thursday The Great Crash of 1929 and the Making of the American Century

    by Julia Wolbrook ...
    On October 24, 1929, the ticker tape couldn't keep up. By the time it caught up to the chaos on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, fortunes that had taken decades to build had vanished in hours. Within days, the word on every American's lips was a date that would outlive the men who lived through it: Black Thursday.But the story of the Crash was never really about the numbers. It was about ... Read more

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  • Beyond the Forty Whacks Lizzie Borden and the Making of an American Legend

    by Julia Wolbrook ...
    On a scorching August morning in 1892, a respectable businessman and his wife were hacked to death in their Fall River home. The prime suspect? Their own daughter, Lizzie, was a Sunday school teacher from a wealthy family who would walk free after one of the most sensational trials in American history.But that was only the beginning.In *Beyond the Forty Whacks*, the Borden murders are not the end ... Read more

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  • Seeds of Liberty Faith, Migration, and Power in the Making of the American Revolution

    by Julia Wolbrook ...
    Before revolutions are fought, they are lived.Seeds of Liberty takes readers deep into the turbulent Atlantic world of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to uncover the hidden forces that transformed a chain of distant British colonies into a nation on the brink of independence. This is not just a story of taxes, battles, and political declarations; it is the story of people: migrants ... Read more

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  • The Cult of Van Gogh How the World Turned an Artist into a Saint

    by Julia Wolbrook ...
    For decades, he was a failed painter, poor, ridiculed, unstable, and nearly invisible to the art world around him. Then, after his death, Vincent van Gogh became something far greater than an artist. He became a legend.The Cult of Van Gogh: How the World Turned an Artist into a Saint is a sweeping journey through the extraordinary transformation of Vincent van Gogh from forgotten outsider to ... Read more

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  • The Report That Lied Stasi Intelligence, Ulbricht's Paranoia, and the June 17 Uprising

    by Julia Wolbrook ...
    A million people took to the streets. The secret police never saw it coming. And the man who ruled East Germany had made sure of it.In June 1953, workers in more than seven hundred East German towns rose against a regime that had built one of history's most feared secret police to prevent exactly this. The Stasi had informants in the factories, agents in the unions, and morale reports filed from ... Read more

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