The author of America’s best-loved baseball book speaks of his days as a reporter, of his time (unique among sportswriters) owning a team, and of his latest subject, Jack Dempsey, whose violent career he uses to illuminate an era.
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Nourished by powerful rivers and an equally powerful sense of its past, a town of cowhands and poets and bikers and professors distills the whole history of the American West - its hope and rapacity, its calamities and triumphs. Fred Haefele makes clear why our third annual American Heritage Great American Place Award goes to…
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It began in the Paris underground of World War II and evolved over 30 years into a phenomenon that so overturned cultural norms that it could not survive.
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THE GENERAL’S MARCH THROUGH GEORGIA IS USUALLY REMEMBERED AS A RUTHLESS CAMPAIGN OF INDISCRIMINATE TERROR, WAGED AGAINST HELPLESS CIVILIANS RATHER THAN SOUTHERN SOLDIERS. BUT VICTOR DAVIS HANSON ARGUES THAT IT WAS BRILLIANT, EFFECTIVE, AND, ABOVE ALL, HUMANE.
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Americans have been launching time capsules into the future for over a century now, and, today, we’re creating more than ever. Why is it that so few reach their destination? And that so many merely bore their recipients?
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THE FILMMAKER, who has just finished a documentary on Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, believes what the two women achieved was nothing less than the largest social transformation in American history
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