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The richly embellished account book of an eighteenth-century sea captain, newly discovered in a Maine attic Read >>
The first major engagement of the U. S. Army in Vietnam was a decisive American victory. Perhaps it would have been better for all of us if it had been a defeat. Read >>
The first major engagement of the U. S. Army in Vietnam was a decisive American victory. Perhaps it would have been better for all of us if it had been a defeat. Read >>
The largest Gothic cathedral in the Western Hemisphere has the strangest stained-glass windows in the world Read >>
The author of ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ never set foot on our shores, but he had a clear and highly personal vision of what we were and what we had been Read >>
At one time or another, practically every American artist has brought forth a blossom. Read >>
For millions of women, consciousness raising didn’t start in the 1960s. It started when they helped win World War II. Read >>
Forty years ago it was Nazis, not communists, we wanted to keep out of Latin America. A veteran of that propaganda war recalls our efforts to bring American values to a bewildered Ecuador. Read >>
Sometimes life in the past really was better Read >>

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