Book Review
Sugar’s bittersweet history
May 11, 2011The history of sugar is a fascinating, complicated and ongoing journey that takes us through the brutal depths of slavery to the heights of resistance and abolition, to the ingenuity of invention from Hershey's milk chocolate...
Read moreMilwaukee’s finest: the amazing story of John Gilman
January 28, 2011"Once we die, all that remains are the remembrances of what we've done while we were here..." It is because of this belief that John Gilman felt compelled to put into his own words his life...
Read moreWe still remember you, Frank Little
January 19, 2011This little 118-page booklet is the first time anybody has even tried to bring the facts of Frank Little's life and murder together.
Read moreLincoln’s fiery trial was America’s too
January 6, 2011Book review: Eric Foner's "The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery."
Read morePhilosophy is dead, asserts Stephen Hawking in new book
September 14, 2010Stephen Hawking, one of the world's best known physicists and a great thinker-in-general, has written, after almost a ten year hiatus, a short new book that gives some surprising new answers to the ultimate questions of...
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