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Dead Sea Scrolls Online

image credit Two thousand years after they were written and decades after they were found in desert caves, some of the world-famous Dead Sea Scrolls went online for the first... Read more

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BOOKS -- 1861: Civil War Awakening

I recently was asked by the Delmarva Review to review the new book by Adam Goodheart on the opening months of the Civil War.  Here's what I came up with:  ... Read more

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