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Classic Essays from Our Archives
1619: The Year That Shaped America | Winter 2019, Vol 64, No 1
By James HornFour hundred years ago this year, two momentous events happened in Britain’s fledgling colony in Virginia: the New World’s first democratic assembly convened, and an English privateer brought kidnapped Africans to sell as slaves. Such were the conflicted origins of modern America.
America: Experiment or Destiny? | June 1977, Vol 28, No 4
By Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
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.
A Yankee Among The War Lords | October 1970, Vol 21, No 6
By Barbara W. TuchmanFirst of the Three Parts from STILWELL THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE IN CHINA 1911-1945
The Treasure From The Carpentry Shop | December 1979, Vol 31, No 1
By David McCulloughTHE EXTRAORDINARY ORIGINAL DRAWINGS OF THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE
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.
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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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