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Eliza McGraw

Washington, D.C.
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Author, Here Comes Exterminator! contributing writer @EQUUSMagazine, researcher @thememorypalace, freelancer. History, horses, books.

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Eliza McGraw is the author of Here Comes Exterminator! as well as two academic books. Here Comes Exterminator! won the 2016 Tony Ryan Award, which honors the year’s best book about the Thoroughbred. She’s a contributing writer for EQUUS magazine, and her work has appeared in The Chronicle of the Horse, The Blood-Horse, Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred, and on Raceday 360. She has contributed to the New York Times' racing blog, and the Washington Post. She earned degrees in English from Columbia Univer…

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To Defeat the Royal Navy During the American Revolution, a Rebel Inventor Designed a Secret Weapon: a Bomb-Carrying Submarine

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By Eliza McGraw
| Smithsonian Magazine Verified
America's 250th Anniversary A Smithsonian magazine special report David Bushnell developed the “Turtle” submersible as a student at Yale University. The vessel’s attack on a British flagship failed, but the trailblazing boat’s legacy endures 250 years later During the American Revolution, the Turtlemade history as the world’s first combat-ready submarine.
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Heroes of the Life Saving Stations

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By Edwin Grosvenor Verified, Charles McGrath, Eliza McGraw
| American Heritage Verified
The Humane Society and later the U.S. Life-Saving Service rescued hundreds of shipwreck victims with lifesaving stations operated throughout New England and beyond. Postcards from the nineteenth century often featured dramatic photos and illustrations of lifesavers at work. Editor’s Note: Charles McGrath is the former editor of the New York Times Book Review and deputy editor of The New Yorker.
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Self-Help from the Middle Ages: What the Seven Deadly Sins Can Teach Us About Living

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By Eliza McGraw
| Washington Independent Review of Books Verified
Peter Jones spends plenty of time in the Middle Ages. As a professor of medieval history, he teaches students how long-ago people comprehended the world and their place in it. Today, we consider psychology, pharmacology, and identity; back then, there were the seven deadly sins.
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