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Since the Civil War, the nation has sent just four African-Americans to the Senate. Why? Read >>
His reputation obscures a complex man haunted by tragedy. Read >>
The Old South has survived along Georgia’s Antebellum Trail, where the Civil War seems to have happened only yesterday. Read >>
A walk with my great-grandfather through the last foreign country in New York City Read >>
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 >>
Men With a Mission Read >>
Indian policy has always had more to do with current social thinking than with actual tribal life. Read >>
The federal government handled it far better than it would later economic disasters. Read >>
Long after George Washington slept in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, so did George S. Kaufman, Oscar Hammerstein, Dorothy Parker, and Moss Hart. Read >>
 “Everything I ever needed to know I learned from Abbie Hoffman.” Read >>

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