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Sixty-five years after the revolution, socialist regulations and the continuing embargo have brought on economic collapse and decaying cities.
Growing up in segregated Texas, I didn’t think much about race. Then, I covered the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s.
Classic Essays from Our Archives
Searching for “Shenandoah” | Winter 2022, Vol 67, No 1
By Bruce WatsonIt's one of the oldest folk ballads in our national songbook, but where did it come from? The answer is complex, multi-layered, American.
The Meaning of 1918 | Fall 2018 - World War I Special Issue, Vol 63, No 3
By John LukacsA century after the guns fell silent along the Western Front, the work they did there remains of incalculable importance to the age we inhabit and the people we are.
Columbus and Genocide | October 1975, Vol 26, No 6
By Edward T. StoneThe discoverer of the New World was responsible for the annihilation of the peaceful Arawak Indians
Who Invented Scalping? | April 1977, Vol 28, No 3
By James AxtellIn recent years many voices—both Native-American and white—have questioned whether Indians did in fact invent scalping. What is the evidence?
Did Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson Love Each Other? | Fall 2008, Vol 58, No 5
By Annette Gordon-ReedTo call it loaded question does not begin to do justice to the matter, given America’s tortured racial history and its haunting legacy.
A Few Parchment Pages Two Hundred Years Later | May/June 1987, Vol 38, No 4
By Richard B. MorrisThe framers of the Constitution were proud of what they had done but might be astonished that their words still carry so much weight. A distinguished scholar tells us how the great charter has survived and flourished.
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British victorious at the Battle of Germantown
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Rutherford B. Hayes
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First U. S. Open
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