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The foremost student of a belief held by nearly half of all Americans traces its history from Darwin’s bombshell through the storms of the Scopes trial to today’s “scientific creationists," who find William Jennings Bryan to have been too liberal. Read >>
This isn’t the first time a Virginia governor has found himself embroiled in controversy about the commercialization of a Civil War site. Read >>
In Pharaoh’s Army Memories of the Lost War Read >>
Once Upon a Telephone An Illustrated Social History Read >>
Tommy Dorsey, Frank Sinatra The Song Is You Read >>
California in Depth A Stereoscopic History Read >>
Bunker Archaeology Read >>
The Way It Was in the South: The Black Experience in Georgia Read >>
A Common Life Four Generations of literary Friendship and Influence Read >>
Hey Folks—It’s Intermission Time Read >>
Kennedy vs Wallace Read >>
Amelia Earhart The Price of Courage Read >>
A Study in Frustration The Fletcher Henderson Story: Thesaurus of Classic Jazz Read >>
The La Follette children grew up in the painful brilliance shed by an illustrious father. Read >>
It went to Russia along with capitalism, but its greatest players worked over here. Read >>
The emergence of AIDS has added new urgency to the work of an organization that turns eighty this year Read >>
It was meant to be an outpost for years, but the frontier sped past it in months. Read >>
It’s the fastest-growing music in America. It’s a three-billion-dollar-plus industry. Cable stations devoted to it reach 62,000,000 homes. And yet, says one passionate follower of country music past and present, its story is over. Read >>
Why litigiousness Is a national character trait Read >>

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