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The Constitution is more than a legal code. It is also a framework for union and solidarity.

An exhibit of treasures from the largest private collection of political memorabilia recently opened on Long Island.

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

The Day The Civil War Ended | June/July 1978, Vol 29, No 4

By Bruce Catton

At the Gettysburg reunion fifty years after the battle, it was no longer blue and gray. Now it was all gray.

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Range Practice | Februrary 1968, Vol 19, No 2

By Dean Acheson

Our former Secretary of State recalls his service fifty years ago in the Connecticut National Guard—asthmatic horses, a ubiquitous major, and a memorable

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How My Father and President Kennedy Saved The World | October 2002, Vol 53, No 5

By Sergei Khrushchev

The Cuban Missile Crisis as seen from the Kremlin

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Herbert Hoover Describes the Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson | June 1958, Vol 9, No 4

By Herbert Hoover

The great tragedy of the twenty-eighth President as witnessed by his loyal lieutenant, the thirty-first.

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The Treasure From The Carpentry Shop | December 1979, Vol 31, No 1

By David McCullough

THE EXTRAORDINARY ORIGINAL DRAWINGS OF THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE

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"I Had Prayed to God That This Thing Was Fiction…" | February 1990, Vol 41, No 1

By William Wilson

He didn’t want the job, but felt he should do it. For the first time, the soldier who tracked down the My Lai story for the office of the inspector general in 1969 tells what it was like to do some of this era’s grimmest detective work.

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    Today in History

  • British victorious at the Battle of Germantown

    British and Hessian soldiers commanded by General William Howe defeat the Continental Army led by General George Washington at the Battle of Germantown. The battle, fought 5 miles outside of Philadelphia, the American capital, reinforced British control of the city.

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  • Rutherford B. Hayes

    19th President Rutherford B. Hayes is born in Delaware, Ohio. Prior to being elected in 1876, Hayes fought in the Civil War, represented Ohio in the House of Representatives, and served two stints as Governor of Ohio.

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  • First U. S. Open

    Newport Country Club hosts the first United States Open Championship, administered by the United States Golf Association, in Newport, Rhode Island.

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