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“You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I’m not hungry enough to eat six.” —Yogi Berra Happy Free Book Friday! Today’s giveaway offers a plethora of mouth-watering recipes from the Lone Star State’s capital… Read the free chapter excerpt below (recipes included) and then comment on this post by Sunday, April 7 (by midnight) for your chance [...]
Time to celebrate the new year with a very special edition of #FreeBookFriday! Today’s giveaways, worth nearly $500 in total, come from the Big Book Club and the corresponding History Press authors to be featured at its very first Connecticut-based getaway. You may enter to win by commenting on this post by Sunday, January 13 (11:59 p.m., [...]
Happy Free Book Friday! Today’s giveaway, Historic Cape May, New Jersey: The Summer City by the Sea, comes from journalist and historian Emil R. Salvini. You can enter to win by commenting on this post by Sunday, December 9 (12:oo a.m., EST)! The winners (picked by the robots at Random.org) will be announced Monday morning. Oh, that’s [...]
Cape May began as Cape May Island, where families journeyed to enjoy wide white beaches and gentle surf during the early nineteenth century. With the advent of steamships and railroads, the quiet village soon became America’s first seaside resort town. Despite its charm and elegance, visitors slowed in the 1880s, as a series of mysterious [...]
“I don’t want to spend my life not having good food going into my pie hole. That hole was made for pies.” ―Paula Deen With Thanksgiving just around the corner, and turkey/stuffing comas pending, it may be the perfect time to rekindle your relationship with the sweeter side of the holiday. For centuries the meal’s crowning [...]
This special #FreeBookFriday comes just in time for this weekend’s PGA championship! The giveaway? Kiawah Golf: The Game’s Elegant Island by Vagabond Golfer Joel Zuckerman, with a foreword by world-renowned golf course designer Pete Dye. Enter to win by commenting on this post by Sunday, August 12 (12:oo a.m., EST). The winner will be announced on Monday morning, [...]
It’s time to celebrate #FreeBookFriday…with today’s giveaway, Wicked Portland: The Wild and Lusty Underworld of a Frontier Seaport Town! Top 3 reasons you should enter to win: The book comes from Finn J.D. John of the popular “Offbeat Oregon” column. It is the first THP title to feature QR codes, which offer exclusive supplemental [...]
Happy Father’s Day weekend! We want to help you celebrate this special occasion with today’s #FreeBookFriday giveaway. You get to choose your freebie this week…for the dad(s) in your life! To win, just comment on this post, and tell us which History Press book you’d like, and why. We’d also love to hear what the [...]
When Congress passed a Mother’s Day resolution in 1914, it was the culmination of years of hard work—by many—toward creating the official holiday. Still, Anna Marie Jarvis’s celebration of her mother’s life in 1907 largely originated the holiday we know today. For instance, the second Sunday in May brings traditions like carnations, 500 of which [...]
Celebrate Friday! …with our “Free Book Friday” giveaway, of course. To win today’s critically acclaimed giveaway, comment at the end of this post by Sunday, April 22 (at 12 a.m. EST) and we’ll enter your name into a random drawing on Monday morning. Today’s featured book, Fading Ads of New York City, comes from Frank Jump, whose name [...]
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Today in 1881: The American Red Cross was founded. This vintage image features ladies of the Plainfield American Red Cross #1, circa 1920s.
"In Washington, D.C., humanitarians Clara Barton and Adolphus Solomons founded the American National Red Cross, an organization established to provide humanitarian aid to victims of wars and natural disasters in congruence with the International Red Cross.
Barton, born in Massachusetts in 1821, worked with the sick and wounded during the American Civil War and became known as the "Angel of the Battlefield" for her tireless dedication. In 1865, President Abraham Lincoln commissioned her to search for lost prisoners of war, and with the extensive records she had compiled during the war she succeeded in identifying thousands of the Union dead at the Andersonville prisoner-of-war camp.
She was in Europe in 1870 when the Franco-Prussian War broke out, and she went behind the German lines to work for the International Red Cross. In 1873, she returned to the United States, and four years later she organized an American branch of the International Red Cross. The American Red Cross received its first U.S. federal charter in 1900. Barton headed the organization into her 80s and died in 1912." via The History Channel
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This undated file picture shows the German Fuehrer Adolf Hitler and his mistress Eva Braun while dining.
A German woman named Margot Woelk was one of 15 young women who sampled Hitler's food to make sure it wasn’t poisoned before it was served to the Nazi leader in his "Wolf's Lair," the heavily guarded command center in what is now Poland, where he spent much of his time in the final years of World War II.
Margot Woelk kept her secret hidden from the world, even from her husband then, a few months after her 95th birthday, she revealed the truth about her wartime role.
The petite widow's story is a tale of the horror, pain and dislocation endured by people of all sides who survived World War II. Read more at http://yhoo.it/17mH7dl.
“And such clam chowder as it was! Thick, juicy, succulent, it dripped down our throats like a sustaining nectar, some paradisal liquid that an angel must have evolved and mixed.” —C.H. Towne, 1921 A plethora of chowders enriches, inspires and influences New England cuisine. As the quintessential New England soup, chowder has a unique culinary history that compels [...]
Guest post by Sarah Falter, History Press Publicity & Marketing Wisps of smoke floated through the crisp November sky towards the palmetto trees that framed the battlefield, and then curled casually towards the bright Charleston sun. … [Read More...]
