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  • Words That Broke Apartheid Nelson Mandela’s Leadership Rhetoric from the Treason Trial to the Rivonia Trial

    by Julia Wolbrook ...
    They could ban his voice. They could not ban his words.For more than four decades, apartheid shut Black South Africans out of the vote, the courts, and the future. Its laws were written to silence resistance. Then one man stood in the dock, with the gallows waiting, and turned the courtroom into a stage.Words That Broke Apartheid takes you inside the two trials that shaped Nelson Mandela's destiny ... Read more

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  • The Unlearned Bomb Nuclear Coercion, Failed Lessons, and the Persistence of American Nuclear Threats since 1945

    by Julia Wolbrook ...
    Since Nagasaki, no American president has dropped an atomic bomb. Yet none has stopped threatening to.Why would the world's strongest military keep reaching for the one weapon everyone agreed was too terrible to use? And why did some presidents brandish it while others locked it away?In this gripping new history, the answer lies not in treaties, taboos, or the balance of power, but in the minds of ... Read more

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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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  • The Credibility Gap: How the Press Made and Unmade Lyndon Johnson Media, Civil Rights, and Vietnam in the Johnson Presidency

    by Julia Wolbrook ...
    He was Washington's most powerful man, and he knew exactly how to use a newspaper.Lyndon Johnson courted reporters the way he courted senators: with charm, access and relentless attention. In 1964, the press rewarded him with one of the greatest landslides in American history. It cheered his civil rights fight, mocked his opponent as reckless, and turned a Texas politician into the leader the ... 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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  • The Day the Torture Stopped Ho Chi Minh's Death and the American POWs of North Vietnam

    by Julia Wolbrook ...
    For five years, American airmen vanished into the prisons of North Vietnam. They were starved, left to heal on their own, locked in the dark, and broken on ropes in cells the world would come to call the Hanoi Hilton. The Geneva Conventions promised them protection. In Hanoi, those promises existed only on paper.Then, in September 1969, Ho Chi Minh died.Within months, something changed. The ... Read more

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  • The Spy Who Divided Two Worlds Jonathan Pollard, American Jewry, and the Fracture of the U.S.–Israel Alliance

    by Julia Wolbrook ...
    On a November morning in 1985, a man stood outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, begging to be let in. The gate stayed shut. Within hours, Jonathan Pollard was in FBI custody, and one of the most explosive spy scandals of the Cold War had begun.He was an American naval intelligence analyst. He was a proud Jew and a devoted Zionist. And for eighteen months, he had been passing America's ... Read more

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  • Fallout at the Kitchen Table The Cuban Missile Crisis, the Nuclear Family, and the Manufactured Fear That Shaped Cold War America

    by Julia Wolbrook ...
    Thirteen days. One president. A hundred and eighty million people waiting for the sky to fall.In October 1962, the world came closer to nuclear war than it ever had before or since. The story has been told a hundred times: the generals, the ultimatums, the tense hours in the Situation Room. But another story unfolded in living rooms, school gymnasiums, and basement shelters across America.Fallout ... Read more

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  • Ink and Blood The Starr Family, the Treaty of New Echota, and the Cherokee Blood Feud That Followed the Trail of Tears

    by Julia Wolbrook ...
    One signature. Three generations. A feud that bled across Indian Territory.On a winter night in 1845, two men slipped into a Cherokee politician's home, found him asleep, and killed him in his bed. The murderers were brothers, and they were Starrs.To understand why, you have to go back seventy years, to a teenage Quaker trader who walked into the Cherokee mountains with an eye for profit and a ... Read more

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  • Breaking Enigma Before the War How Polish Mathematicians Cracked the "Unbreakable" Code

    by Julia Wolbrook ...
    Long before Bletchley Park, before Alan Turing, before the world knew the word Enigma, a secret war was being fought in a Warsaw laboratory. The Germans trusted their cipher machine completely. Every order, every troop movement, every whispered command could travel through the open air, and no enemy on earth, they believed, would ever read a word.They had not counted on Marian Rejewski, Henryk ... Read more

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  • Rommel's Ghost The Desert Fox, the Führer's Favorite, and the Battle Over a Nazi General's Legacy

    by Julia Wolbrook ...
    He was the enemy the Allies couldn't help but admire, and the propaganda machine that made him famous almost destroyed him.Erwin Rommel died in October 1944 a disgraced political liability, dismissed by Allied newspapers as just another Nazi thug. Six years later, Hollywood turned him into a celluloid hero, and his legend as history's last honorable warrior has never really faded since.Rommel's ... Read more

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  • Madison County, Texas: From Native Homelands to Frontier County A History of Early Settlers, Pioneer Families, and the Making of a Central Texas Community

    by Julia Wolbrook ...
    Long before Madison County had a name, the Trinity River carried the Cenis and Bidai peoples, Spanish explorers, and French adventurers through the East Texas timberlands. Then came the settlers: peddlers, doctors, farmers, and families willing to bet everything on cheap land and cotton.Madison County, Texas, follows that story from its first Native homelands to the frontier county that grew up in ... Read more

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