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The education of Henry Adams
Angle of repose
The Five of Hearts
The world inside
Wallace Stegner
Slavery, race, and American history
Measuring Time
C.L.R. James's Caribbean
Mythistory and other essays
For the sake of our children
The last testament
Les Croisades vues par les Arabes
Theopompus of Chios
The French Revolution
Fighting for Afghanistan
The historical revolution
Arnold J. Toynbee, a life
America's first dynasty
Thomas and Jane Carlyle
Samuel Smiles and the construction of Victorian values
The Making of the South African Past: Major Historians on Race and Class
Pioneering History on Two Continents
Waiting for the morning train
When the facts change
Making history in twentieth-century Quebec
Facing up to the past
The truth according to us
Ranke
Glanmor Williams
Reminiscences
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