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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
The Man of the Century | May/June 1994, Vol 45, No 3
By Arthur Schlesinger Jr.Of all the Allied leaders, argues FDR's biographer, only Roosevelt saw clearly the shape of the new world they were fighting to create.
Alice Paul: “I Was Arrested, Of Course…” | February 1974, Vol 25, No 2
By Robert S. GallagherAn interview with the famed suffragette, Alice Paul
Did Castro Okay the Kennedy Assassination? | Winter 2009, Vol 58, No 6
By Gus RussoIncriminating new evidence has come to light in KGB files and the authors' interviews of former Cuban intelligence officers which indicates that Fidel Castro probably knew in advance of Oswald's intent to kill JFK.
Ike's Son Remembers George S. Patton Jr. | Summer 2012, Vol 62, No 2
By John D. EisenhowerThe author, who once served under General Patton and whose father, Dwight D. Eisenhower, was Patton's commanding officer, shares his memories of "Ol' Blood and Guts."
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.
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.
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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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