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Time Machine |
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1948 Fifty Years Ago |
Dewey Defeats Dewey Read >>
The Also-rans |
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1923 Seventy -five Years Ago |
Swords Into Plowshares Dept. Read >>
1873 One Hundred And Twenty-five Years Ago |
Boss Tweed Goes to fail Read >>
Honoring Harding |
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The Tragic Success of Bela Lugosi | November 1998
Bela Lugosi began by playing Laertes and Romeo, only to become forever trapped in very different roles. Read >>
Heart And Sole |
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Honoring Harding |
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No Second Acts? |
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The Sublimity of "The Searchers" | November 1998
It looks both backward to everything Hollywood had learned about Westerns, and forward to things that films hadn’t dared to do. Read >>
Under the Spreading Mushroom Cloud | November 1998
‘Who’s next?” sang Tom Lehrer in his darkly funny Cold War ballad about nuclear proliferation. We’re still asking. Read >>
John Winthrop Sets Up America's First Iron Works | November 1998
It was a bankrupt ruin by the 1660s, but the Saugus Ironworks foretold America’s industrial might. Read >>
Near-Perfect Conditions | November 1998
America’s very first alpine ski resort—they invented the chair lift there—is still as good as it gets. Read >>
To Plan A Trip |
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My Brush With History |
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Whistle Stop |
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Secret Summer |
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Benevolent Bartender |
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The Long, Stormy Marriage of Money and Politics | November 1998
… or why campaign-finance reform never succeeds in America ... Read >>
Grant Wood’s Road | November 1998
You’ve just written a history of America from Columbus to Clinton. What do you put on the cover? Read >>
I Learn a Lot from the Veterans | November 1998
Reminiscences of World War II’s European Theater add up to considerably more than a bunch of good war stories. Read >>
Veterans: Tell Us Your Story |
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Coming to Love the Music of Irving Berlin | November 1998
A singer’s journey through the life of Irving Berlin Read >>
Simply Art | November 1998
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Family Heroes |
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Dr. Strangelove’s Children | November 1998
Growing up on a Cold War air base in the shadow of the big one Read >>
Sac: Forty-five Years On Alert |
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Coya Knutson: The Woman of the Century | December 1998
You’ve likely never heard of her. Read >>

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