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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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World War II Magazine
What does a dedicated pacifist do when the United States surges toward war?...
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Audio
Bound by her vows to be a cloistered nun, Mother Teresa sought permission from the Vatican to go among the poor and give assistance to the people of Calcutta....
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HistoryNet
When we think of Tudor England, various images flash through our minds. Kings, many queens, dashing courtiers, spies, and ruthless intrigues enter the mix. Add a dash of Renaissance fashion and religious upheaval and it is a heady, or...
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HistoryNet
It might come as a surprise to moms, daycare workers, or any woman who has carried a weighty toddler on her hip that there were once “women’s protective laws” forbidding members of the female sex from taking jobs that required them...
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World War II Magazine
Late in the war President Roosevelt opened a new front—and met surprisingly little resistance...
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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...