The city of the departed Dodgers, of Henry Ward Beecher, Walt Whitman, and Coney Island, is ready for its next act as a world-class tourist destination.
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Nearly two million people visited Gettysburg last year. What they saw there and what R. E. Lee saw there are very different. That’s about to change.
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Recently, a company tried to harness history by resurrecting a great American motorcycle. What happened is a cautionary tale about business, memory, and the seductive urge to recapture the past.
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Are we learning from the past? And are we honoring it?
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