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72nd National Jewish Book Awards Finalists
January 19, 2023
125 Years Since the First Zionist Congress
August 28, 2022
Wyatt Earp & Josephine Marcus
March 15, 2022
Primary Sources: Meaning, Reliability & Where To Find Them
January 31, 2022
International Holocaust Remembrance Day: Albert Einstein
January 27, 2022
Mark Twain’s Publishing Firm: Chapter 13
November 18, 2021
Dreyfus Affair Museum Opens in Paris
October 28, 2021
Max Nordau: A Man of Vision and Obscure Legacy
October 22, 2021
Chief Justice William Howard Taft: A Dream Deferred
August 30, 2021
Libbie Custer: Shaping a Legacy
August 09, 2021
The Most Athletic Presidents & The Olympics
July 25, 2021
Isaac Leeser’s Proto-Zionism
July 13, 2021
Theodore Roosevelt Family Life
June 20, 2021
Newly Digitized Kennedy Manuscript
May 30, 2021
Warder Cresson and the First Amendment
May 25, 2021
George Washington: Farming & Agriculture
May 13, 2021
President Jefferson and the First Vaccine
April 18, 2021
National Library Week: Staff Reading Picks
April 08, 2021
Harry S. Truman & Baseball: Presidential First Pitches
April 01, 2021
A Year Less Traveled
March 25, 2021
Albert Einstein the Activist
March 14, 2021
Edith Wilson, First Woman President?
March 09, 2021
Review: Valley of Tears
February 25, 2021
Presidential Brothers in Arms: Rutherford B. Hayes and William McKinley
February 16, 2021
Love in the White House
February 07, 2021
Harry and Bess Truman
February 02, 2021
Gabby Giffords Draws Upon Inspirational Words Of Abraham Lincoln
January 18, 2021
Clarel Disinterred
December 30, 2020
Theodor Herzl, Chaim Weizmann, and the East Africa Scheme
December 14, 2020
Napoleon in Jaffa: His First Waterloo – Acre
December 02, 2020
David Rice Atchison – (Not) President for a Day
November 22, 2020
Ben-Gurion the Archivist
November 18, 2020
NEW: Teacher Resources Curricula Now Available at Shapell
November 07, 2020
Researchers share stories of Ohio Jewish Civil War soldiers
October 20, 2020
Leopold Rothschild
September 11, 2020
Harry Truman Post Presidency: Presidential Recollections
August 27, 2020
Little Phil: The Heroism and Hard Luck of a Civil War Soldier
August 13, 2020
George Cortelyou
May 10, 2020
Watch: Jewish Confederate Soldiers – Georgia
April 23, 2020
Historical Reads for Self-Isolation | COVID-19
March 23, 2020
Tragedy in the White House: U.S. Presidents Who Lost Children
February 24, 2020
Camille Pissarro and the Dreyfus Affair
January 21, 2020
“Not So Innocent Abroad” – Jewish Review of Books
January 16, 2020
“The Twain Shall Meet” – The New York Jewish Week
December 25, 2019
SMF Mourns the Passing of John Sellers and Joe Rubinfine
December 11, 2019
The Author of Ben-Hur, the Book that Healed a Nation
December 05, 2019
Mark Twain and the Adams Colony
November 12, 2019
Exhibition Opening: “Mark Twain and the Holy”
October 25, 2019
Mark Twain’s Journeys in the Holy Land – Day 12, September 28th
September 28, 2019
Mark Twain’s Journeys in the Holy Land – Day 11, September 27th
September 27, 2019
Mark Twain’s Journeys in the Holy Land – Day 10, September 26th
September 26, 2019
Mark Twain’s Journeys in the Holy Land – Day 9, September 25th
September 25, 2019
Mark Twain’s Journeys in the Holy Land – Day 8, September 24th
September 24, 2019
Mark Twain’s Journeys in the Holy Land – Day 7, September 23th
September 23, 2019
Mark Twain’s Journeys in the Holy Land – Day 6, September 22th
September 22, 2019
Mark Twain’s Journeys in the Holy Land – Day 5, September 21th
September 21, 2019
Mark Twain’s Journeys in the Holy Land – Day 4, September 20th
September 20, 2019
Mark Twain’s Journeys in the Holy Land – Day 3, September 19th
September 19, 2019
Mark Twain’s Journeys in the Holy Land – Day 2, September 18th
September 18, 2019
Mark Twain’s Journeys in Palestine – Day 1, September 17th
September 17, 2019
Mark Twain’s Journeys in Palestine – September 16th
September 16, 2019
Forbes: Mark Twain’s ‘The Innocents Abroad’ Celebrated In New York
September 15, 2019
A Presidential Response to the 1929 Hebron Massacres
August 29, 2019
Netanyahu: The Longest-Serving Israeli Prime Minister
July 15, 2019
Treaty of Versailles Centennial: June 28, 2019
June 28, 2019
Historic Week for Space Exploration
April 11, 2019
National Library of Israel Features Theodor Herzl Postcards
April 08, 2019
Historians Explain Why We Collect Manuscripts
January 31, 2019
25 Years Since the Northridge, California, Earthquake
January 17, 2019
Inspirational Letter from the Wrongly Imprisoned Alfred Dreyfus
January 14, 2019
The President’s Bodyguard: Mick McElkenny
December 31, 2018
Welcome to the New Home of the Shapell Manuscript Foundation
December 09, 2018
The 2018 Mid-Term Elections: Where the Debates all Started
September 02, 2018
Jerry Parr: The Secret Service, Ronald Reagan, & More
August 22, 2018
The 150th Anniversary of Ulysses Grant’s 1868 Election Year
August 14, 2018
When Did The US First Get Involved In The Middle East
August 21, 2017
Mary Benjamin – Famous Autograph Authority
April 30, 2017
New Exhibition “High Hopes: The Journey of John F. Kennedy”
March 25, 2017
Lincoln and the Jews – Book and Exhibition Reviews
January 16, 2017
Honest Abe and the Children of Abraham
March 26, 2015
“Lincoln and the Jews: a History”
March 17, 2015
Private David Ben-Gurion, Volunteer in the Jewish Legion, 1918
August 04, 2014
Theodore Roosevelt and Grandsons
July 28, 2014
50 Children
July 17, 2014
Anne Frank Family Photos at the Anne Frank Fonds
March 26, 2014
Beautiful Historic Photographs from 1862-1924
February 25, 2014
Lincoln’s Eloquence
November 19, 2013
An Assassin Prepares
September 17, 2013
JFK’s 1944 Flight Logbook
May 29, 2013
Jewish Participation in the American Civil War
July 10, 2012