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  1. Saugatuck Douglas Historical Society & Museum

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    The Museum Committee managed the Saugatuck-Douglas Museum. The committee mounts yearly exhibitions, maintains the PumpHouse facility and grounds, operates the Museum Shop, and coordinates the voluntee More >>>

  2. Douglas County Museum

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    Beginning with the strikes of 1889 and 1890, the exhibition will touch on the cultural influences of the immigration population as well, including the Finnish community which played a prominent nation More >>>

  3. Wrapped in Glory: Black Troops of the Civil War

    By Douglas R. Egerton, Spring 2021, Volume 66, Issue 3

    Fighting to defeat the Confederacy, the first African American regiments also helped win for themselves the full rights and privileges of U.S. citizens.   More >>>

  4. Heirs of an Honored Name

    By Douglas R. Egerton, Fall 2020 George Washington Prize, Volume 65, Issue 8

    After his father's death in 1848, Charles Francis Adams, Sr. became the last great hope of America's first—and, at the time, only—political dynasty. More >>>

  5. Darkness Falls on the Land of Light

    By Douglas L. Winiarski, Special Issue - George Washington Prize 2018, Volume 63, Issue 2

    Divisions in society and religion that still exist today resulted from the "Great Awakenings" of the 18th Century More >>>

  6. Caution: I Brake For History

    By Douglas Brinkley, April 1996, Volume 47, Issue 2

    A BOLD NEW KIND OF COLLEGE COURSE BRINGS the student directly to the past, nonstop, overnight, in squalor and glory, for weeks on end More >>>

  7. The Clothes Lincoln Wore

    By Douglas Gorsline, August 1957, Volume 8, Issue 5

    Mr. Lincoln’s wardrobe remains the prototype of the armor of Nineteenth-Century statesman. Rooted in the noble visual line of his heroes, Webster and Clay, it was essential to his career before t More >>>

  8. Grant Wood’s Road

    By Douglas Brinkley, November 1998, Volume 49, Issue 7

    You’ve just written a history of America from Columbus to Clinton; what do you put on the cover? More >>>

  9. Prime Mover

    By Douglas Brinkley, June/July 2003, Volume 54, Issue 3

    The Model T Ford made the world we live in. On the 100th anniversary of the company Henry Ford founded, his biographer Douglas Brinkley tells how. More >>>

  10. “A Most Abandoned Hypocrite”

    By Douglas L. Wilson, February/March 1994, Volume 45, Issue 1

    A newly discovered document almost certainly written by the young Abraham Lincoln shows him dismantling a shifty political rival with ruthless wit and logic More >>>

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