Book Review
Milwaukee’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...
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We 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.
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Lincoln’s fiery trial was America’s too
January 6, 2011Book review: Eric Foner's "The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery."
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Philosophy 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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Novels, memory and the Holocaust
April 23, 2010Holocaust Remembrance Day just passed, and it got me thinking about memory and empathy.
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