Wishing you glorious holidays and the happiest of New Years

The Grand Canal and Santa Maria della Salute in Venice last week.

ICYMI - Some Fascinating History for Holiday Reading

Angels of the Resistance

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/12/11/angels-of-the-resistance-and-a-serial-killer-in-nazi-occupied-paris.html

The Secret Agent Shrink vs. The Nazis

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/11/12/the-shrink-as-secret-agent-jung-hitler-and-the-oss.html

The Socialite Spy Who Played So Dumb She Outsmarted the Nazis

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/09/25/the-socialite-spy-who-played-so-dumb-she-outsmarted-the-nazis.html

The Slave Who Stole the Reb Codes

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/07/23/the-slave-who-stole-the-confederate-codes-and-a-rebel-warship.html

The Black Spies in the Confederate White House [need to change article in hed and the woman in the picture is not in fact the woman we are writing about, whose photo does no exist)

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/03/19/the-black-spies-in-a-confederate-white-house.html

The ‘Spider’ Who Nearly Wrecked the CIA

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/02/27/my-lunch-with-the-spider-who-nearly-wrecked-the-cia.html

The Second Empire Strikes Back 

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/11/20/the-second-empire-strikes-back-in-the-must-see-show-of-paris-this-season.html

Les Tuileries: The Phantom Palace of Paris

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/03/13/les-tuileries-the-phantom-palace-of-paris.html

Bringing History Into the Present at The Daily Beast

As I looked back over the stories I've written for The Daily Beast this year, I was struck by how many of them were historical. Most were published under the rubrics of our regular Cloak & Dagger and Lost Masterpieces features, which are long reads that run on the weekends. But most of them also have some relevance to current events, especially the resurgence of fascism and Nazism, whether we call the new movements white nationalism, the alt-right, or just Donald Trump on Twitter. 

Angels of the Resistance in Nazi Paris

Dec 11, 2016 12:01 AM EST

Brave women helped downed Allied flyers escape the Germans.... MORE

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The Nun Murders and the Transition Team

Nov 27, 2016 10:25 AM EST

During the transition from Carter to Reagan, the Salvadoran death squads started targeting... MORE

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The (Second) Empire Strikes Back

Nov 20, 2016 12:15 AM EST

Napoléon III was a vain authoritarian who came to power in a wave of nationalist populism.... MORE

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The Secret Agent Shrink vs. The Nazis

Nov 12, 2016 12:15 AM EST

At the height of World War II, the U.S.... MORE

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Socialite Beat the Nazis By Playing Dumb

Sep 25, 2016 12:15 AM EDT

Big game hunter, legendary French Riviera partier, and a quintessential WASP—Gertrude Sanford was... MORE

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The Slave Who Stole the Reb Codes

Jul 23, 2016 12:13 AM EDT

When three Confederate officers decided to go ashore for a night in Charleston, they left their... MORE

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  Will Nicaragua Ever Get Its Grand Canal?

  May 14, 2016 12:01 AM EDT
  

  The dream of building a trans-Nicaragua canal from the Atlantic to the Pacific has been around... MORE

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  The Southern Spy Sleeping With the Enemy

  May 8, 2016 12:45 PM EDT
  

  Confederate generals relied on Thomas Jordan for key intelligence on Union troops—and he led them... MORE

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  The CIA Kidnapper Facing Jail in Italy

  Apr 26, 2016 1:00 AM EDT
  

  The 2003 ‘rendition’ of Abu Omar from Italy’s streets to Egypt’s torture cells was a notorious CIA... MORE

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  Texas Secessionists’ Embassy in Paris

  Apr 24, 2016 12:15 AM EDT
  

  Secession talk is heating up again in Texas. Will France once again recognize it as its own country?... MORE

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  Black Spies in a Confederate White House

  Mar 20, 2016 12:01 AM EDT
  

  How a secret intelligence network successfully spied on Confederate leader Jefferson Davis in his... MORE

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  The Phantom Palace of Paris

  Mar 13, 2016 12:01 AM EST
  

  The Parisian residence of kings and emperors disappeared almost 150 years ago, but its shadow, and... MORE

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  ‘The Spider’ Who Nearly Wrecked the CIA

  Feb 27, 2016 12:13 AM EST
  

  Long before ‘Game of Thrones’ dubbed its spymaster The Spider, James Jesus Angleton earned that... MORE

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  How Umberto Eco Tagged Today’s Fascists

  Feb 22, 2016 12:05 PM EST
  

  Two decades after the late Italian novelist and intellectual Umberto Eco published a devastatingly... MORE

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