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Richard Zacks talked about his book Chasing the Last Laugh: Mark Twain’s Raucous and Redemptive Round-the-World Comedy Tour, in which he remembers Mark Twain’s efforts to repay a sizable deb…

Richard Zacks talked about his book The Pirate Coast: Thomas Jefferson, The First Marines, and the Secret Mission of 1805, published by Hyperion. In his book he recounted Thomas Jefferson’s…

Richard Zacks recounts stories of New York City in the 1890s, the hub of America’s manufacturing and financial world as well as the home of an alternate economy, marked by casinos, brothels,…

Panelists discussed the topic “Making of the Presidents: Bringing History Alive on the Page.” Three historians who have written about widely differing aspects of the American presidency desc…