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  1. United States, AH History of the

    By padma.priya

    In this rich and inspiring book, acclaimed historian Douglas Brinkley takes us on the incredible journey of the United States - a nation formed from a vast countryside on whose fringes thirteen small More >>>

  2. A Biography Of America

    By Christine Herb…, October 2000, Volume 51, Issue 6

    IT’S ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO TELL OUR NATIONAL STORY ON TELEVISION, EVEN IF YOU’VE GOT 13 HOURS AT YOUR DISPOSAL. THREE PEOPLE WHO DID IT EXPLAIN HOW—AND WHY. More >>>

  3. Westpoint: 1978

    By Spencer Klaw, June/July 1978, Volume 29, Issue 4

    What’s Happened to the Long Gray Line More >>>

  4. Comments About The National Portal

    By admin

    “The National Portal is a historic opportunity for the museum and archive fields. As Chairman of the Advisory Committee, I will do everything in my power to help it succeed.” —Allen More >>>

  5. Who Really Was FDR?

    By Derek Leebaert, Summer 2023, Volume 68, Issue 4

    He could be charming and witty, but also devious and cruel, said aides closest to Franklin Roosevelt. More >>>

  6. The Biggest Decision: Why We Had To Drop The Atomic Bomb

    By Robert James Maddox, May/June 1995, Volume 46, Issue 3

    Truman was Commander in Chief of the American armed forces, and he had a duty to the men under his command not shared by those sitting in moral judgment decades later More >>>

  7. The Hit-and-Run Raid

    By Charles Morrow…, August 1961, Volume 12, Issue 5

    St. Albans was as drowsy a Vermont town as any there was —until the Confederate Army’s enthusiastic but incompetent bank robbers put on a wild half-hour of extravagant melodrama More >>>

  8. Black Pawn On A Field Of Peril

    By Bruce Catton, December 1963, Volume 15, Issue 1

    DRED SCOTT v. SANFORD More >>>

  9. The Seventeenth Largest Army

    By Gene Smith, December 1992, Volume 43, Issue 8

    The old Regular Army, part fairy tale and part dirty joke, was generally either ignored or disdained. But its people went about their work with a dogged humdrum gallantry—and when the storm broke, they helped save the world. More >>>

  10. Boston's Freedom Trail

    By Brent Glass, July/August 2020, Volume 65, Issue 4

    Sixteen historic sites in Boston remind Americans of the events that led to our nation’s birth, from the Boston Massacre to Bunker Hill and the USS Constitution. More >>>

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