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Over Here | May/June 1994
The Home Front, 1938–1945 Read >>
Player-piano Prodigy | May/June 1994
Gershwin Plays Gershwin The Piano Rolls Read >>
If You’re In | May/June 1994
The Hudson Valley Read >>
The Last Rebel Yell | May/June 1994
Gettysburg: The Last Reunion of the Blue & the Gray Read >>
Queen And King | May/June 1994
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Bad Association | May/June 1994
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The Myth Of The West | May/June 1994
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Imaginative Philanthropy | May/June 1994
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Man About Town | May/June 1994
New York: A Guide to the Metropolis Walking Tours of Architecture and History Read >>
The Secret History | May/June 1994
On the Real Side Laughing, Lying, and Signifying— the Underground Tradition of African-American Humor Read >>
An Exile At Home | May/June 1994
Edith Wharton, an Extraordinary Life Read >>
Wearable Art | May/June 1994
Fouch T-shirts Read >>
Canadian Enterprise | May/June 1994
The World of William Notman The Nineteenth Century Through a Master Lens Read >>
Whispering Sammy | May/June 1994
“Tilden or blood,” cried the newspapers, but the man himself wouldn’t lift a hand for the presidency. Read >>
Under Her Wing | May/June 1994
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The Great Traitor | May/June 1994
Benedict Arnold never quite understood the cause he served superbly and then betrayed. Read >>
The Perils of Success | May/June 1994
Sewell Avery was a careful student of business history, but he learned the wrong lesson. Read >>
Ragtime Diplomacy | May/June 1994
Haiti’s current plight is grimly familiar to anyone with the least knowledge of that country’s past. Read >>
Beyond Baseball | May/June 1994
Cooperstown, New York, is famous for its fiction - The Last of the Mohicans, The Deerslayer, and the Abner Doubleday myth. Read >>
To Plan A Trip | May/June 1994
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Glider | May/June 1994
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Chaplain Kidder’s Song | May/June 1994
A D-DAY VETERAN’S GRANDSON ATTEMPTS TO FIND THE ANSWER TO THAT MOST IMPENETRABLE QUESTION: WHAT WAS IT LIKE? Read >>
D-Day: What It Meant | May/June 1994
A soldier who landed in the second wave on Omaha Beach assesses the broadest implications of what he and his comrades achieved there. Read >>
D-Day: What It Cost | May/June 1994
This is a story of the months prior to June 6,1944, and a few of the days following, told through some of the letters my 23-year-old father, Frank Elliott, wrote my mother, Pauline, while he was with Company A of the 741st Tank Battalion, and some that she sent him at the time of the Normandy landings. Read >>
The Class of ’44 | May/June 1994
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The Man of the Century | May/June 1994
Of all the Allied leaders, argues FDR's biographer, only Roosevelt saw clearly the shape of the new world they were fighting to create. Read >>
City Station | July/August 1994
Once the very heart of downtown St. Louis, Union Station has come through hard times to celebrate its 100th birthday, and ,even though the trains don’t pull in here anymore, it’s still an urban draw. Read >>
Editors’ Choice | July/August 1994
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Shadowland | July/August 1994
CIA Special Weapons & Equipment: Spy Devices of the Cold War Read >>
The Sage Of Incorrectness | July/August 1994
Mencken: A Biography Read >>

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