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  1. Connecting With Eastern Europe

    By John Lukacs, November 1990, Volume 41, Issue 7

    Americans have always sympathized with the Eastern European countries in their struggles for democracy, but for two centuries we haven’t been able to help much. Do we have a chance now? A distinguished expatriate looks at the odds. More >>>

  2. Alice Paul: “I Was Arrested, Of Course…”

    By Robert S. Gallagher, February 1974, Volume 25, Issue 2

    An interview with the famed suffragette, Alice Paul More >>>

  3. The Sergeant Major’s Strange Mission

    By George F. Scheer, October 1957, Volume 8, Issue 6

    General Washington wanted Benedict Arnold taken alive, right in the heart of British-held New York. More >>>

  4. Asylum In Azilum

    By Diana Forbes-R…, April 1976, Volume 27, Issue 3

    Refugees from the French Revolution, many of them of noble birth, built a unique community in the backwoods of Pennsylvania—and hoped their queen would join them More >>>

  5. Big Boom In Boston

    By Rufus Jarman, October 1969, Volume 20, Issue 6

    “Come immediately … Nothing like it in a lifetime!” an exalted customer telegrapheds wife after hearing the opening number of the National Peace Jubilee in 1869 More >>>

  6. Traveling With A Sense Of History

    By Otto Friedrich, April 1987, Volume 38, Issue 3

    From Fort Ticonderoga to the Plaza Hotel, from Appomattox Courthouse to Bugsy Siegel’s weird rose garden in Las Vegas, the present-day scene is enriched by knowledge of the American past More >>>

  7. July 4 In 1826

    By L. H. Butterfield, June 1955, Volume 6, Issue 4

    As Adams and Jefferson died, America came of age More >>>

  8. Investigation: 1862

    By T. Harry Williams, December 1954, Volume 6, Issue 1

    Suspected but not convicted, this General went to prison More >>>

  9. Science, Learning, And The Claims Of Nationalism

    By Henry Steele C…, April 1972, Volume 23, Issue 3

    We have come a long way from the philosophy of the Enlightenment...a shift that represents a retreat rather than an advance, argues the noted historian. More >>>

  10. Beer and America

    By Max Rudin, June/July 2002, Volume 53, Issue 3

    It came over with the Mayflower and stayed on to be the unchallenged drink of democracy. More >>>

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