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  1. Slang

    By Hugh Rawson, October 2003, Volume 54, Issue 5

    It’s the poetry every American writes every day—a centuries-old epic of abuse, taunt, criminality, love, and bright, mocking beauty. More >>>

  2. The Week The World Watched Selma

    By Stephen B. Oates, June/july 1982, Volume 33, Issue 4

    A century after passage of the Fifteenth Amendment, many Southern blacks still were denied the vote. In 1965 Martin Luther King, Jr, set out to change that—by marching through the heart of Alabama. More >>>

  3. The Man Who Invented

    By Joe McCarthy, December 1975, Volume 27, Issue 1

    With a wave of his plastic wand Carl Fisher transformed a tangle of mangrove swamps into a peculiarly American resort More >>>

  4. Canyonlands

    By Robert L. Reynolds, October 1967, Volume 18, Issue 6

    In the red-rock country of southeastern Utah is a new national park, a quarter-million acres of silence, brilliant color, and vistas unmatched anywhere on Earth. More >>>

  5. Behind the Blackface

    By Robert C. Toll, April/May 1978, Volume 29, Issue 3

    In the 19th Century, white performers invented the minstrel show, the first uniquely American entertainment form   More >>>

  6. Thomas Dixon

    By Richard F. Snow, October/November 1980, Volume 31, Issue 6

    AMERICAN CHARACTERS More >>>

  7. When The Red Storm Broke

    By William Harlan Hale, February 1961, Volume 12, Issue 2

    To a Russia in revolution, America sent rival groups of amateur diplomats. The calamitous results of their indecision still afflict us More >>>

  8. Young Innocents

    By Bruce Catton, October 1957, Volume 8, Issue 6

    Bear in mind that this romantic viewpoint was by no means confined to the South. It was all but universal, and you can see it in the North as well as in Dixie. It is eminently visible in the histor More >>>

  9. Jazz Delights the World

    By Ryan Reft, Fall 2018 - World War I Special Issue, Volume 63, Issue 3

    During the World War I, American jazz bands played at hospitals, rest camps and other venues, delighting doughboys and Europeans alike. More >>>

  10. Was The Secretary Of War A Traitor?

    By W. A. Swanberg, February 1963, Volume 14, Issue 2

    On the brink of the Civil War southern arsenals began to fill with thousands of federal guns, sent there by a Cabinet officer More >>>

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