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  1. When the Senate Was Great

    By Ira Shapiro, June/July 2024, Volume 69, Issue 3

    Members of “the world’s greatest deliberative body” put the interests of the country first More >>>

  2. Since When Can You Patent A Gene?

    By Frederick E. Allen, July/August 2000, Volume 51, Issue 4

    And why is it not really so different from patenting anything else? More >>>

  3. “overrated And Underrated”: The Readers Weigh In

    By Anonymous (not verified), February/March 2005, Volume 56, Issue 1

    For Kevin Baker to place President Ronald Reagan in the overrated category (“Overrated & Underrated,” October 2004) is preposterous. In addition to sweeping away the dark days of Vietnam, Wate More >>>

  4. The Young Republic 1787 To 1860

    By Pauline Maier, November/December 2004, Volume 55, Issue 6

    The assignment—to select 10 books suitable for a lay reader that cover American history between the Constitution and the 1850s—sounds easier than it is. There are tens of thousands of books on the More >>>

  5. “here I Have Lived”

    By Anonymous (not verified), April 1989, Volume 40, Issue 3

    Springfield bills itself as “Mr. Lincoln’s Hometown,” but it has never been entirely clear what it thinks of its First Citizen. On my last visit several years ago, the streets were filled with More >>>

  6. The Speech That Made The Man

    By Harold Holzer, Winter 2010, Volume 59, Issue 4

    Lincoln’s oration at New York’s Cooper Union showed that the prairie lawyer could play in the big leagues More >>>

  7. Winter Of The Yalu

    By James Dill, December 1982, Volume 34, Issue 1

    A soldier remembers the freezing, fearful retreat down the Korean Peninsula after the Chinese armies smashed across the border More >>>

  8. Eight Days With Harry Truman

    By Thomas Fleming, July/August 1992, Volume 43, Issue 4

    The elder statesman sets the record straight on JFK, LBJ, Stalin, the bomb, Charles de Gaulle, Douglas MacArthur—and, most of all, the American Presidency More >>>

  9. When The Laws Were Silent

    By William H. Rehnquist, October 1998, Volume 49, Issue 6

    In the wake of Pearl Harbor, tens of thousands of American citizens were taken from their homes and locked up simply because of their Japanese ancestry. Was their internment a grim necessity or “the worst blow to civil liberty in our history”? The Chief Justice of the United States weighs the reasoning. More >>>

  10. ‘What Did You Do In The War, Professor?’

    By Ronald H. Spector, December 1986, Volume 38, Issue 1

    Historians have failed to help Americans understand what the war was all about. So charges this scholar, author, and Vietnam veteran. More >>>

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