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IrishCentral Contributor Loretto Leary looks at the fascinating life of Galway woman Mary Anne O'Doherty (née Kelly) who came to be known as 'Eva of the Nation.'

In September 1924, the KKK held the Second Imperial Klonvocation in Kansas City. It counted an estimated 60,000 members in Kansas alone. | Opinion

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A Fever in the Heartland” is one of the most pertinent new books this season, especially for Oregon, where extremism is on the rise. It is a thoughtful history, ...

A Fever in the Heartland” is one of the most pertinent new books this season, especially for Oregon, where extremism is on the rise. It is a thoughtful history, ...

In the early 1920s, the second version of the Ku Klux Klan numbered more than six million men who vowed to maintain white supremacy.

“The Covenant of Water”

Narrative nonfiction reads like a novel, so you get the benefit of learning something new while being entertained.

While recently in Ireland, I visited its oldest city: Waterford, whose mall is dominated by an imposing equestrian statue of Brigadier General Thom...

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