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  1. Truman Vs. MacArthur

    By Walter Karp, April/May 1984, Volume 35, Issue 3

    When the President fired the general, civilian control of the military faced its severest test in our history More >>>

  2. Scientists At War

    By Fred Kaplan, June/july 1983, Volume 34, Issue 4

    THE BIRTH OF THE RAND CORPORATION During World War II, America discovered that scientists were needed to win it—and to win any future war. That’s why RAND came into being, the first think tank and the model for all the rest. More >>>

  3. This Was New York

    By Anonymous (not verified), April 1995, Volume 46, Issue 2

    Terrible Honesty Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s More >>>

  4. How To Remember The Forgotten War

    By Stanley Weintraub, May/June 2000, Volume 51, Issue 3

    The Korean conflict erupted fifty years ago this June. Many Americans still believe that it began in debacle (which is true) and ended in a humiliating compromise that changed nothing (which is not). More >>>

  5. Chosin

    By Robert Moskin, November 2000, Volume 51, Issue 7

    Fifty years ago in the frozen mountains of Korea, the Marines endured a campaign as grueling and heroic as any in history More >>>

  6. The Kid

    By Neil A. Grauer, December 2000, Volume 51, Issue 8

    JACKIE COOGAN REACHED THE PINNACLE OF SUCCESS AND STARDOM WHEN HE WAS FIVE. THEN HE SET THE HOLLYWOOD PATTERN OF PAYING THE PRICE FOR EARLY FAME. More >>>

  7. Lee’s Lieutenants

    By Anonymous (not verified), September/October 1987, Volume 38, Issue 6

    by Douglas Southall Freeman; Scribner’s; three paperback volumes, $16.95 each. After finishing his 1934 biography R. E. Lee , Douglas Southall Freeman wanted to step back a century and write More >>>

  8. Macarthur Memorial

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    The museum is housed in Norfolk's nineteenth-century City Hall, which is both a Virginia Historic Landmark and a National Historic Place. A monumental rotunda is the General and Mrs. MacArthur's final More >>>

  9. The Fall Of Corregidor

    By Hanson W. Baldwin, August 1966, Volume 17, Issue 5

    “The Rock” was a proud island fortress, impregnable to attack from the sea. Unfortunately, the Japanese didn’t come that way. Its capture climaxed the bitterest defeat in our history More >>>

  10. How A Great Historian Studied A Great American

    By Allan Nevins, February 1956, Volume 7, Issue 2

    Published here for the first time, Douglas Southall Freeman’s letters to the Carnegie Corporation telling of his research on Washington show More >>>

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