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  1. Surviving Black Monday

    By Alan Greenspan, Winter 2008, Volume 58, Issue 1

    In one day, the stock market plummeted 22 percent shortly after the author became Chairman of the Federal Reserve More >>>

  2. 1924 Seventy-five Years Ago

    By Frederic D. O'Brien, November 1999, Volume 50, Issue 7

    Mrs. Governor More >>>

  3. “the House Shall Chuse Their Speaker…”

    By Neil Macneil, February 1977, Volume 28, Issue 2

    And in doing so, the fate of Congress—will it be weak? will it be strong?—is determined More >>>

  4. How We Survived Black Monday

    By Alan Greenspan, Spring 2020, Volume 65, Issue 2

    Shortly after the author became Chairman of the Federal Reserve in 1987, the stock market plummeted 22 percent in one day. More >>>

  5. 1948 Election

    By Robert Shogan, June 1968, Volume 19, Issue 4

    The President’s popularity was waning, and he was facing an able Republican as well as two rebels from his own party. At hand was the with the nation in peril at home and abroad. Then Harry S.Truman set out to give ’em hell. More >>>

  6. T.r.’s Last Adventure

    By Joseph L. Gardner, June 1973, Volume 24, Issue 4

    Defeated in his attempt at apolitical comeback in the Presidential election of 1912, the fifty-four-year-old Theodore Roosevelt started off 1913 eager for fresh adventures. The former President accept More >>>

  7. Lincoln & Douglass

    By Stephen Kendrick, Winter 2009, Volume 58, Issue 6

    The prairie lawyer president and outspoken abolitionist formed an unusual friendship More >>>

  8. The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

    By William S. McFeely, February/March 2021, Volume 66, Issue 2

    Although he was scrupulously honest, Andrew Johnson angered members of Congress by thwarting their plans for Reconstruction. More >>>

  9. Precursors Of The Moral Majority

    By Martin E. Marty, February/March 1982, Volume 33, Issue 2

    “You’re Another!” is one of the favorite games people play with history. Accuse citizens of doing something outrageous, and they point to precedents. When Watergate blighted Richard Nixon, au More >>>

  10. 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 >>>

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