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Environmental Program
, , , Issue 3Most Overrated Environmental Program: This just occurred in March 1999, when the Maxxam Corporation of Houston was paid $480 million by the federal government and the state of California for 10 More >>>
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A Boy From Tampico: Ronald Reagan
, , , Issue 4Most associate Ronald Reagan with California, but he spent his formative years in the midwest. On the centennial of his birth, a handful of small Illinois towns want a share of the limelight. More >>>
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The Man Who Won The War For Us
, , , Issue 3THE NEGLECTED EPIC OF ANDREW JACKSON HIGGINS More >>>
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Road Book
, , , Issue 7The most American of American literary genres is nearly as old as the motorcar itself More >>>
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Dust!
, , , Issue 5In the 1930’s, “black blizzards” eroded a 97-million-acre section of the Great Plains, which an AP reporter casually but appropriately termed the “Dust Bowl.” The name stuck. Another Dust Bowl is not inevitable, but it is possible. More >>>
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Smoke Alarm
, , , Issue 4“That’s General MacArthur! Clear the port wing of the bridge!!” More >>>
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“No One Returns Alive”
, , , Issue 5Too often overlooked today, the New Guinea campaign was the longest of the Pacific War, with 340,000 Americans fighting more than half a million Japanese. More >>>
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MacArthur’s Missed Signal?
, , , Issue 8Why were twenty wounded American soldiers released on Thanksgiving in 1950, days before the Chinese attacked in Korea? More >>>
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The Gilded Age And Industrialization
Artifacts Electric Truck State Museum of Pennsylvania Tariff Cartoon American Heritage Archives Stories Recent From the Archives More >>>
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The American Revolution
Artifacts Model of Hannah, First U.S. Ship U.S. Navy Museum Regulations for the Order and Discipline of Troops of the United States Valley Forge National Historic Park More >>>