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American History Magazine
Peter Fechter made a run for freedom from East Berlin that cost him his life...
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American History Magazine
The first painting Edgar Degas sold to a museum did not portray underage ballerinas or a domestic tableau but the artist’s relatives at work in a cotton brokers’ office—in New Orleans, Louisiana. Until January 16, 2017, Houston’s...
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American History Magazine
When Corregidor fell, Sergeant William Lynch’s tortured journey was only beginning ...
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American History Magazine
We stand on the shoulders of a giant...
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American History Magazine
Americans who loved Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt did so not only because the First Couple saw their country through depression and war but because they empathized with regular people. Alas, the Roosevelts had no empathy for one other....
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American History Magazine
In this richly sourced volume offering much to admire but also much to view darkly, the biographer of presidents Eisenhower, Grant, and Franklin Roosevelt analyzes the American leader who dubbed himself “The Decider.” Jean...
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American History Magazine
Society comes off the hinges. Fear and hatred swirl out of control. Violence erupts. Outbursts of aggressive behavior attempt to regain control or to restore justice. We live in such times. Precedent offers a chance to reflect on how...
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Thomas S Kidd, author of 'Patrick Henry: First Among Patriots' talks about a conspiracy to remove George Washington from his post as general of the Continental Army during the American Revolution. ...
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American History Magazine
Today’s fraught world got you yearning for yesteryear? Read The Tunnels. With main and supporting characters, plots and subplots and sub-subplots, along with multifarious intertwined threads of finagling and inveigling, Mitchell deftly...
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American History Magazine
Novelist Nelson Algren woos Simone de Beauvoir...
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American History Magazine
A country doctor countered malaria with a drug once thought dubious...
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American History Magazine
Some want to wipe the N-word from the face of the earth; others see a term of endearment—the complicated tale of two protean syllables...
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American History Magazine
Before the ‘shores of Tripoli’ were a lyric, they were the target of a daring raid...
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American History Magazine
oday the highlight of Appledore Island, six miles off Portsmouth, New Hampshire, is sun- and wind-powered Shoals Marine Research Laboratory, jointly run by Cornell University and the University of New Hampshire. The painter Childe...
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American History Magazine
The Pledge of Allegiance and how it got that way
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American History Magazine
In the early 1900s, small farmers in Kentucky and Tennessee took trust-busting literally...