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Fiorello La Guardia and the Making of Modern New York

Books & the Arts / How the popular mayor and a popular front of radicals and reformers transformed New York City Michael Kazin Mike Wallace’s Gotham at War is the third and final volume of the most ...
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The first Anglo-Dutch War: The Battle of Plymouth, 1652

The Battle of Plymouth unfolded amidst the First Anglo-Dutch War on 16 August 1652, when General-at-Sea George Ayscue of the ...
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The Second Anglo-Dutch War: Battle of Vågen, 1665

In August 1665, the Battle of Vågen unfolded in Bergen, Norway, during the Second Anglo-Dutch War. A Dutch merchant fleet, backed by unexpected Danish allies, clashed with a formidable English ...
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How a Stolen Letter Helped Trigger the Spanish-American War

The publication of a diplomat’s confidential criticism of President William McKinley helped propel the United States into the ...