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What’s in the June Issue of the Journal of American History?
The June issue of the Journal of American History is available online and in print. Included are articles by Douglas Winiarski, Richard Bell, Lara Vapnek, and Joanna Cohen’s...
Wild Bill: Baseball and Deadwood
by Tom Clavin There are two reasons to write about James Butler Hickok right now. One is baseball. We are in what the sport’s scribes call the “dog days” of the season when the...
The Men Who Led Peary to the Pole
by Buddy Levy Robert Peary gets all the accolades (and plenty of warranted skepticism) for being the first to the North Pole, but he would never have made it there (if he did)...
Jackie Robinson: Shaking the Foundation
by Kostya Kennedy True: The Four Seasons of Jackie Robinson by Kostya Kennedy is a probing, richly-detailed, unique biography of Jackie Robinson, one of baseball’s—and...
The Hedgehog in WWII
by P. T. Deutermann My latest novel, The Last Paladin, out this month, is based on a true story of WWII. In this book, the USS Holland (DE-24), a World War II Atlantic Fleet...
Three Early Transplant Pioneers
by Paul Craddock Thanks to dazzling advances in xenotransplantation and stem cell research, transplant surgery appears to be going through a new Renaissance. But where did...
Learning the Ropes: The Early Years of a Texas Ranger “Great Captain”
by Joe Pappalardo On July 26, 1887, Sgt. James Brooks listens to the jury foreman declare a guilty verdict with a sinking feeling in his stomach. Today the Texas Ranger, standing...