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That Streaking Fad | April 1999
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1924 Seventy-five Years Ago | April 1999
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1799 Two Hundred Years Ago | April 1999
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1649 Three Hundred And Fifty Years Ago | April 1999
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Brothers-in-arms | April 1999
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A Quartet to Remember | April 1999
Since the Civil War, the nation has sent just four African-Americans to the Senate. Why? Read >>
A New Study of the Life of a Robber Baron | April 1999
His reputation obscures a complex man haunted by tragedy. Read >>
Following Georgia's Antebellum Trail | April 1999
The Old South has survived along Georgia’s Antebellum Trail, where the Civil War seems to have happened only yesterday. Read >>
To Plan A Trip | April 1999
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Last Look | April 1999
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At Ease | April 1999
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Chinatown in New York City | April 1999
A walk with my great-grandfather through the last foreign country in New York City Read >>
Frontispiece | April 1999
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In the Hotel New York | April 1999
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To Plan Trip | April 1999
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Correspondence | April 1999
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Exploring the Last Rebel Ground | April 1999
From Richmond to Appomattox Court House, roads unchanged for 140 years tell the story of the final days and the final hours of the Confederacy. Read >>
Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Distracted ... | April 1999
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What Americans Know | April 1999
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Pioneer Lawmen | April 1999
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To Plan A Trip | April 1999
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The Lesson | April 1999
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War Movies | May/June 1999
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1874 One Hundred And Twenty-five Years Ago | May/June 1999
The First College Football Game Read >>
1774 Two Hundred And Twenty-five Years Ago | May/June 1999
The Party’s Over Read >>
Readers’ Album | May/June 1999
Men With a Mission Read >>
Native and Other Americans | May/June 1999
Indian policy has always had more to do with current social thinking than with actual tribal life. Read >>
The Great Crash of 1792 | May/June 1999
The federal government handled it far better than it would later economic disasters. Read >>
75 Miles Southwest of Broadway | May/June 1999
Long after George Washington slept in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, so did George S. Kaufman, Oscar Hammerstein, Dorothy Parker, and Moss Hart. Read >>
To Plan A Trip | May/June 1999
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