People

Olof Skötkonung was king of Sweden around the turn of the eleventh century and is commonly regarded as the first Swedish ruler to adopt Christianity. Coins […]

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Omar Bradley is represented in the linked historical fiction and non-fiction through military command and battlefield decision-making and empire, conquest and resistance. These works approach the […]

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Osceola was a prominent Seminole leader during the Second Seminole War, although he was not a hereditary chief of the entire Seminole people. He opposed removal […]

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Oswald was king of Northumbria from 634 to 642. After defeating Cadwallon of Gwynedd at Heavenfield, he restored Northumbrian power and invited Aidan from Iona to […]

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1879–1968

Otto Hahn was a German chemist associated with the discovery of nuclear fission. His scientific work became central to twentieth-century nuclear physics and to the wartime […]

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Pancho Villa is represented in the linked historical fiction through family, marriage and personal loyalty and court politics and dynastic power. These works approach the figure […]

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Patty Cannon is represented in the linked historical fiction through social change and the pressures of ordinary life, family, marriage and personal loyalty, and exploration, travel […]

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1780–1825

Pauline Bonaparte was Napoleon’s sister and a prominent member of the imperial family. Married first to Charles Leclerc and later to Prince Camillo Borghese, she became […]

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Paul Tibbets is represented in the linked historical fiction through military command and battlefield decision-making, social change and the pressures of ordinary life, and crime, espionage […]

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1870–1964

Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck was a German commander in East Africa during the First World War. His guerrilla campaign tied down Allied forces for years and became […]

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