How Benjamin Franklin’s Cold Feet Led to a Revolutionary American Invention

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From Philly to Derry: On the Americans Who Armed the IRA During The Troubles

From Philly to Derry: On the Americans Who Armed the IRA During The Troubles

Ali Watkins on Vincent Conlon’s Secret Life in the United States as an Operative and Gun-Running Irish Rebel

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A Columbia professor's message to his fellow Jewish faculty members.

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A Small Press Book We Love: </br><em>Wings in Time</em> by Callie Garnett

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Writing Biography Without an Archive: On Recovering a Past Believed to Be Lost

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