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King Edward VIII

King Edward VIII

A Life from Beginning to End

Edward VIII was a rare kind of royal. He wasn’t one who was constantly seeking affirmation from the press, nor was he one seeking his own place in the long history of British monarchs. Instead, he was a man who fell in love and wanted to live a quiet life—in particular, a quiet life with the object of his affection, an American divorcee…

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James Buchanan

James Buchanan

A Life from Beginning to End

James Buchanan began life as a country boy in rural Pennsylvania. He would later leave the farm for law school and, after that, politics. Buchanan’s ascent to the presidency was a careful and steady rise; he checked all of the requisite boxes and took all of the necessary steps he believed the office required, but nevertheless, when…

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Yom Kippur War

Yom Kippur War

A History from Beginning to End

The State of Israel was established in 1948, and from the very beginning, it faced war with neighboring Arab nations. Somehow, despite the fact that its newly created army was greatly outnumbered, the War of Independence from 1948 to 1949 saw Israel and its borders secured. However, the peace that followed didn’t last long. In 1956…

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John Tyler

John Tyler

A Life from Beginning to End

John Tyler is perhaps one of America’s lesser-known presidents, and the fact that he even became president was due to the tragic death of his predecessor, William Henry Harrison. Throughout history, Tyler was indeed mostly known merely for the fact that he was the first vice president to be promoted to the presidency, but there is more to…

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Salem Witch Trials

Salem Witch Trials

A History from Beginning to End

The Salem Witch Trials have become one of the most infamous events in American history. During the bitter winter of 1692/93, a group of Puritan young women in the colonial town of Salem, Massachusetts, accused more than two hundred of their neighbors and fellow townspeople of using witchcraft to injure and torment them. This was an…

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The Great Sioux War

The Great Sioux War

A History from Beginning to End

The Battle of the Little Bighorn, or Custer’s Last Stand, has gone down in legend, but this was just one part of an epic struggle between the Sioux and Cheyenne Indians and the United States of America. The Great Sioux War was the bloodiest of all of the conflicts in the three hundred years of American Indian Wars and would effectively…

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Mary Todd Lincoln

Mary Todd Lincoln

A Life from Beginning to End

It is no secret that Mary Todd Lincoln is one of the least popular first ladies in American history. She was considered a shrew, a spendthrift, and her own son had her declared insane. The truth behind Mary Todd Lincoln’s lies in the fact that she was unable to conform to the feminine expectations of her times. Well-educated and filled…

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Aztec Civilization

Aztec Civilization

A History from Beginning to End

The Aztec Empire dominated Mesoamerica for a relatively short time—less than one hundred years—but it is remembered today more than other ancient cultures in the region which sustained for much longer. Partly that is because this was a relatively recent culture which was widely reported by the first Europeans to make contact with it…

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King James I

King James I

A Life From Beginning to End

James I of England and VI of Scotland was the first king to rule both countries. He was faced with division between his realms and caught between the religious wars of the Reformation. Spending most of his reign at odds with the religious and parliamentary powers around him, James did little to unite his people. Unable to take a firm…

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Joan of Arc

Joan of Arc

A Life From Beginning to End

No historical figure’s life story offers a more intriguing and insightful look at a specific moment in French, and European, history than that of Joan of Arc. Over the course of a biography that sadly lasts just nineteen years, Joan of Arc completely altered the course of the Hundred Year’s War. Acting on the counsel of divine voices…

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Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla

A Life From Beginning to End

Nikola Tesla was a major figure in the world in which he lived. As the nineteenth century gave way to the twentieth, it was Tesla who would contribute to some of the world’s most amazing inventions. It was Tesla’s theories, patents, and experiments that would pave the way for the digital, wireless world we are so familiar with today…

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John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy

A Life From Beginning to End

John F. Kennedy is the president that everyone knows. He was a rich man’s son, an athlete, a war hero, a ladies’ man, an author, a president, his face rendered forever young because the last time Americans saw him, he was riding in a convertible in Dallas, his glamorous wife at his side. Then the bullets struck, and the assassinated…

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Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson

A Life From Beginning to End

Old Hickory. King Mob. The Peoples President. King Andrew I. The nicknames by which the seventh president is known reflect the different facets of his complicated nature. He believed in the rights of the common man because he came from humble beginnings and distrusted the vested institutions of power. The first American president born to…

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