History

Destined to Be a Hamilton: True Life Stories of Mary Anne Hamilton, Great-Great Granddaughter-in-Law of Founding Father Alexander Hamilton

Mary Anne Clark is a 31-year-old struggling waitress and soon-to-be-divorced mother of five. She serves 65-year-old Laurens Morgan Hamilton, heir to J. P. Morgan and Founding Father Alexander Hamilton. He returns the next day—her day off—to announce he’s going to…

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Mitya’s Harbin: Majesty and Menace

In the late 1950s, the Soviet Union was pressuring its citizens in Harbin, China, to return to Mother Russia. For the family of Dimitry (“Mitya”) Nikolayevich Zissermann and other White Russians, leaving their beloved “home town” had its perils. Few…

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Healing, Romance & Revolution: Letters from an American Nurse in 1926 China

HARRIET W. SMITH, idealistic nurse, returns to China and Yale in China’s schools of medicine and nursing and its hospital to continue working with her beloved Chinese students, patients, and her colleagues, and to pursue her humanitarian causes. Upon returning…

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