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“Between Shades of Gray” by Ruta Sepetys [Book Review]

Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys reveals the grace and strength of the Lithuanian nation in one of its darkest hours. The story of Lina and her family is one of the most powerful I have ever read and is at the same time a tragedy of epic proportions […]

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2016 Reading List Books

My 2016 Reading List

A list of books read in 2016 in bibliographic format. My 2016 reading appetites continued along the historical from my 2015 Reading List but also saw a shift towards highlighting specific personalities in terms of monographs and place-based histories. Among my fascinations were Eleanor of Aquitaine, Alexis de Tocqueville, the

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2015 Reading List Books

My 2015 Reading List

A list of books read in 2015 in bibliographic format. 2015 was really a continuation of 2014 for me in that my reading interests were focused primarily on history and books relevant to my genealogical research. 2015 reflects a narrower focus on historical contexts, especially medieval England and the southern

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The Battle Of New Orleans, the battle that never should have been!

The Battle of New Orleans was a battle fought as the culmination of the War of 1812. The War of 1812 is an interesting conflict in American History because, in many respects, it was an offshoot of the American Revolutionary War in that postwar tensions, as well as the ongoing

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Unfurling My Opinion On The Confederate Flag

As a person who didn’t grow up in the South yet has a deep connection to its past via his ancestry, I’d like to unfurl my opinion on the Confederate Flag. First of all, there exists the fallacy of composition which states (paraphrased) that you cannot apply a logical inference

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You Need “The Science of Getting Rich” to Get Rich!

The publication The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles (1910) is a foundational study in the Law of Attraction and absolutely requisite reading for anyone along its path of tutelage. This book has been an amazingly profound source of knowledge for me and has most notably been one

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