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The Artificial River: the Erie Canal and the Paradox of Progress, 1817-1867 © 1997 Carol Sheriff 272 pages At the dawn of a new cen...

The Ghosts of Evolution: Nonsense Fruit, Missing Partners, and Other Ecological Anachronisms © 2000 Connie Barlow 291 pages Grocery s...

Jim Lovell was having dinner at the White House when his friend Ed White burned to death.  Actually, it was't dinner Lowell was having,...

First Family: Abigail and John Adams © 2010 Joseph Ellis 320 pages 'Til then, 'til then, I am, as I ever was....yours, yours,...

I've spent this last week recovering from over-doing it on the French front, zipping through no less than three Star Trek novels for rel...

A People's History of the Civil War: Struggles for the Meaning of Freedom 594 pages © 2005 David Williams No war has left such ...

Ship of the Line © 1997 Diane Carey 320 pages Two captains, each without a ship. The first, Captain Picard, lost his when it plowed...