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The first Soviet conductor to tour in the United States had been accused with “anti-democratic tendencies.” Read >>
Tom Mix, my all-time hero, lifted me up and sat me on Tony. Read >>
Not all the Germans of the Third Reich agreed with Hitler on the “Jewish question,” he wanted me to know.   Read >>
As modern medicine has grown ever more powerful, our ways of providing it and paying for it have gotten ever-more-wasteful, unaffordable, and unfair. Here is an explanation and a possible first step toward a solution. Read >>
Every spring, 30,000,000 Americans watch the Indianapolis 500. It’s the nation’s premier racing event and the pinnacle of a glamorous, murderous epic that stretches back nearly a century. Read >>
The Colonial Revival was born in a time of late-19th-century ferment, and, from then on, the style resurfaced every time Americans needed reassurance. Read >>
America’s first Miss Lonely hearts advised generations of anxious lovers in the newspaper column that started it all. Read >>
Our ancestors look gravely and steadily upon things that we cannot. Read >>
Essays on Our Endangered Republic Read >>
A Collection of Favorite American Quotes, Poems, Songs, and Recipes Read >>

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