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  1. 1972 Twenty-five Years Ago

    By Frederic D. O'Brien, February/March 1997, Volume 48, Issue 1

    E.R.A. More >>>

  2. Was the Presidential Election Stolen?

    By Roy Morris Jr., Winter 2021, Volume 66, Issue 1

    There was widespread fraud, especially in the swing state of Florida. We are talking, of course, about 1876. More >>>

  3. Convention Surprises

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    Presidential conventions at which no candidate won on the first ballot have produced some of our best Presidents including Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Three U.S President didn’t win a single vote on the first try at their convention. More >>>

  4. Convention Surprises

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    Presidential conventions at which no candidate won on the first ballot have produced some of our best Presidents including Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Three U.S President didn’t win a single vote on the first try at their convention. More >>>

  5. Dreams Deferred

    By Bernard A. Wei…, March 1990, Volume 41, Issue 2

    How the Fifteenth Amendment, like the Fourteenth, was almost strangled in its cradle. More >>>

  6. A Shooting — and the Civil Rights Movement Changes Course

    By Christine Gibson

    Hit the dirt! The cry came 51 years ago today, at 4:15 p.m. on June 6, 1966, just before three shotgun blasts exploded from the bushes along Highway 51 near Hernando, Mississippi. Two of the rounds More >>>

  7. Salmon Chase Saves the Union

    By Walter Stahr, Spring 2024, Volume 69, Issue 2

    Lincoln’s Secretary of the Treasury helped win the Civil War with his many financial innovations, and was an ardent advocate of emancipation. More >>>

  8. The Delegates Behind the Declaration

    By Arthur Bernon …, December 1962, Volume 14, Issue 1

    The men who signed the Declaration of Independence had very few illusions about what they were risking. How much of what they pledged did they actually lose? More >>>

  9. 1890 One Hundred Years Ago

    By Arthur Nielsen, July/august 1990, Volume 41, Issue 5

    Given control over the Presidency and both houses of Congress by the 1888 elections, the Republican party quickly seized its chance to admit new states from the solidly Republican Western territori More >>>

  10. “Freedom Is in My Soul”

    By Keisha N. Blain, September 2022, Volume 67, Issue 4

    The legacy of Fannie Lou Hamer’s life was her belief that the United States could indeed live up to its ideals. More >>>

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