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Jerel Wilmore
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I read books, love cats, and I know things. It’s what I do. #VCU (BA & MA) USD Law (JD & LLM)
Most Americans don’t understand the History of their own independence. This is the second volume of a History of the American War of Independence.
July 20, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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“The Glorious Cause” is a History of the late American colonial period and the American War of Independence.
July 6, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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While the Holocaust has become synonymous with the murder of Jews, it didn’t start with Jews, it started with disabled children.
May 3, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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How Palestinian became a mess in six days.
April 30, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Not your conventional romcoms, but a great series with a romance between two older characters.
April 15, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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An important secondary source, but it can be off putting at times because it was written during segregation.
April 15, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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How did Lyndon Johnson go from Senator to Vice President to President?
April 11, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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The U.S. Senate works the way it does today because of Lyndon Johnson. Here’s how it happened.
April 9, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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A sweeping History of Europe from pre-history to the present.
April 5, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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When FDR took office in 1933, the Great Depression was already four years old. His response was the Works Progress Administration.
April 4, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Just before World War Two, the U.S. Army was tiny. This is the story of how the United States mobilized the largest and most powerful army in the world.
April 3, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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The second volume of Robert A. Caro’s biography of Lyndon Johnson. A crash course in how the House of Representatives works.
March 30, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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I like Hillary Clinton as a person, but her 2016 campaign was very poorly run.
March 30, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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In the History game primary sources are the gold standard, but in between is the memoir: written many years after the war, they can be self-serving: “Battles and Leaders of the Civil War.”
March 26, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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If you read only one book about the Holocaust, this is it.
March 24, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Felix Whiskers poses on a clean fleece.
March 23, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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“Why the South Lost the Civil War.” A collaboration about why the South lost.
March 22, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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How a republic dies. Very timely reading.
March 21, 2025 at 11:34 PM
The 20th century saw a reorganization of nations, and among the most important was the change between the relationship between Ireland and Great Britain. Central to that change was Michael Collins.

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March 9, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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I live in Richmond, Virginia and there is an ongoing debate about what caused the American Civil War. There are people who will stand in the middle of the road and insist it was about states rights, but there’s a paper trail, and it was about slavery.
March 8, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Cat pictures are the best pictures.
March 7, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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“Blitzkrieg” by Len Deighton. What did the Germans do differently in 1940?
March 7, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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18/20

Civil wars are anything but civil.
March 6, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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17/20

The year our nation was born.
March 5, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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It speaks for itself.
March 4, 2025 at 3:13 AM