Inspiring Gifts for History Lovers

A Guide for Gift Giving this Holiday Season from The Raab Collection   In search of a special gift for someone who loves and...

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From Toulon to Moscow: Great Letters of Napoléon at Raab

As the highly anticipated film Napoléon debuts in theaters, we consider our collection of the French leader’s rare and historically important letters and documents...

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The Report of the Death of Napoléon

Unexpected treasures found at the bottom of a box of miscellaneous historical autographs sold at auction included rare Napoléon documents     This essay is...

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The Reading Habits of Presidents and Other Great Thinkers

Thomas Jefferson, Charles Darwin, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and William Henry Harrison are just some of the historical figures who left behind direction on the...

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Thomas Jefferson Could Not Live Without Books

Featured by the Washington Post: A newfound letter from 1815 shows Jefferson restocking his Monticello library after selling his book collection to Congress Earlier...

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Langdon Easton by the Sea: A Story of Historical Discovery

Last month, in a small port town on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, I sat at a table in a coffee shop, just a block from...

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A Season of Discovery: A Farmer’s Collection and Other Historical Treasures

It’s harvest season, and here the corn is still in the field. Tractors share the road with pickups and sedans. Wild turkeys move in...

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A Benjamin Franklin Discovery

This Land Grant Signed by Benjamin Franklin Remarkably Remained With the Original Land Owners and Heirs Until its Acquisition by Raab   It’s not...

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The Founding Father of American Literature: Washington Irving

While Famous for “Sleepy Hollow,” Irving Considered His Biography of George Washington the “Crowning Effort” of his Great American Literary Career   Washington Irving’s...

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How a George Washington Letter Discovery is Like the Surface of the Moon

An Original Washington Letter from 1777, Written Days After the Battle of Saratoga and Praising Heaven for the Victory, Whose Survival Was Unknown  ...

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