Police say a British historian was handcuffed, thrown to the ground and jailed because he refused to obey a uniformed officer's order to use a crosswalk and wouldn't show identification.The histori...
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An American historian sentenced to seven years in prison for sexual perversion and abuse of minors won early release from prison Tuesday because he wrote a book about Dracula, his attorney said.Kur...
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One week before he died, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. attended a forum at the New-York Historical Society, seated in the front row of a small, crowded room as three biographers he had edited discussed...
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One week before he died, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. attended a forum at the New-York Historical Society, seated in the front row of a small, crowded room as three biographers he had edited discussed...
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Berlin (dpa) - Officials from 11 governments have agreed to
sidestep legal barriers and begin in late summer with distribution of
electronic copies of one of the world's mos...
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Frankfurt (dpa) - Saul Friedlaender, the Jewish historian, praised
modern Germany Friday, while speaking of his "complex feelings" at
receiving the German Book Trade Peace P...
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A bomber pilot in World War II says he was shot down while being escorted by the Tuskegee Airmen, an account that supports a recent report by two historians who say the black fighter group, contrar...
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In his 89 years, Arthur M. Schlesinger was a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, a Kennedy insider, and an influential thinker who helped define mainstream liberalism during the Cold War."(He had) en...
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In 1943, 17-year-old Eberhard Fuhr was taken out of his high school classroom in Cincinnati, arrested by FBI agents, and sent off to an internment camp for "enemy aliens" in Texas, where he spent t...
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He was a man who loved American history, tall women, small children, dry martinis, big steaks, epic movies and every kind of Kennedy. On Monday morning, the old guard of liberal New York turned o...
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British prof arrested; jaywalking in Ga.
