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Wild West Magazine
Jennifer Lawrence weaves a decidedly offbeat history of the unsung U.S. Army laundresses who labored at Western frontier posts through much of the 19th century ...
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Audio, Women's History, World War II
An argument on women's history in combat and their role in war. ...
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Audio, World War II
While some regarded female pilots as a means to fill a need, women Soviet pilots faced difficulties after World War II when they tried to continue flying. ...
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Audio, World War II
During World War II, women were employed by the U.S. Army Air Force to pilot planes outside of combat situations and act as instructors. ...
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Audio, Politics
The drug Thalidomide was responsible for pressuring the government to legalize abortions and is now believed to be connected to the Zika epidemic....
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American History Magazine
On November 1, 1872, Susan B. Anthony entered a barbershop in Rochester, N.Y., that doubled as a voter registration office and insisted she had as much right to vote as any man. Startled officials allowed her to register after she...
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American History Magazine
Mercy Otis Warren helped John Adams sound a clarion call for independence, but suffered his wrath when she charged that the new federal government encroached on the rights of individual. Following the Boston Tea Party of December 1773,...
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American History Magazine
President Woodrow Wilson coined the term “gold star mothers,” but Grace Darling Seibold organized them into an effective lobby. When the U.S. entered World War I in 1917, families hung banners displaying a blue star for every loved one...
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America's Civil War Magazine
The Lincolns: Portrait of a Marriage by Daniel Mark Epstein Ballantine Books, 2008, $28 Daniel Mark Epstein’s The Lincolns: Portrait of a Marriage is historical revisionism at its worst. It is the first major salvo in the coming...
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American History Magazine
A bevy of 20th-century trailblazers led women to soar to new heights “Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn’t be done,” aviatrix Amelia Earhart once famously declared. Earhart and other pioneering 20th-century women...
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American History Magazine
It would take 44 years after American women won the vote in 1920 for a major party to seriously consider nominating a woman presidential candidate. And it would be another 44 before a woman could be called a legitimate contender for the...
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American History Magazine
Steven Pinker’s message in his new book, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, is explosive. Reaching back to the beginnings of human history and exhaustively and compellingly tracing the naked ape’s behavior over...
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Ask Mr. History
Who was the First Nun?...
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Wild West Magazine
Surprise! Chris Enss had written another entertaining book about 19th-century Western women who appeared onstage...
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Audio
Howie Franklin, former Air Force One Chief Steward, reminisces about his experiences with Ronald and Nancy Reagan aboard the presidential airplane. ...
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Audio, Politics
The South Carolina Senate passed a bill that would prohibit abortions passed 19 weeks. ...