History, Europe
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Anne-Josèphe
A Stage Play by William Wilczak
Anne-Josèphe: A Stage Play brings to life the historic Anne-Josèphe Théroigne de Méricourt, a commonly overlooked revolutionary who fought for liberty and equality for women during the French Revolution. Bold and passionate about effecting change, ...
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Plainfolk
Stories from the Farm about the Impact German-Russian Farmers and Planer Colonists had on Two Countries and Seven Generations by Victoria M Jurgens
Plainfolk: Stories from the Fraess Farm and Planer Colonists is a wide-ranging cultural expedition into a unique diaspora of German-Russian farmers, told in the most personal voice. Here is the tale of the Planer Colonists, of which the Fraesses ...
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The Life & Times of Alexander Hamilton
Two Apples that Fell from the Same Tree by Robert Gary Dodds
ROBERT GARY DODDS uncovered and wrote about the pivotal role Hamilton ancestors played in world-historical events, many forgotten yet impacting history. Read of the Hamilton Clan’s earliest evidenced ancestor born in the 9th century, his descendent ...
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Stutthof Diaries Collection
For Truth & Honor by Tore Jørgensen
In the early days of World War II, as Nazi Germany brutally invaded and occupied neighboring countries around Europe, hundreds of Norwegian police officers were commanded to carry out the orders of the Nazi occupiers of their homeland – Norway. They ...
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Nation Builders and Enemy Aliens
Four Centuries of German Experience in Canada by Gerhard P. Bassler
Today German Canadians are among Canada’s most assimilated citizens, often distinguishable from other Canadians by their name only. For centuries their pioneer farmers, economic developers, industrialists, professionals, musicians, artists, ...
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We Will Not Die Here
by Zack Redman
In this redemption tale, an unlikely friendship offers a glimpse into the resilience of the human spirit. During the Battle of the Bulge in the frozen winter of 1944, Henry Gerald Briggs, a deserting American soldier, stumbles across the German ...
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Broken Kaleidoscope Syndrome
Daughter of the Soviet Union by Mila Kraabel
Two years after Uncle Stalin led the Soviets to victory in the Great Patriotic War, Mama brings Mila home from the delivery ward. Aunt Nastya takes one look at the baby and states her heels are too skinny, a sign she doesn’t belong to this world. ...
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The Murphys of Rathcore Rectory
by Julia Turner
A complex character, angry and aggressive, James Murphy was not an easy husband or father. But all his children said "He made a God out of education." He had found education to be his gateway out of poverty, his way to leave a countryside still ...
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Choose You This Day
by Dick Derksen
The Derksen family has come to Wuestenfelde as refugees from Friesland, Mennonites that have fled the persecution of all Anabaptists, primarily due to the debacle of their takeover of Muenster in north Germany. Misguided followers of Melchior ...
