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The Ultimate American Pastime Combines Cars, Sports, and Food Read >>
A New Look at a Much-Photographed Era Read >>
A Museum Exhibition Collects the Best Images From America’s First Great Photography Studio Read >>
A Haunting Pursuit of an Elusive Town Read >>
The Rituals of American Scholarship Are Applied to the Rituals of American Time-Wasting Read >>
Was JFK’s Most Famous Quote Coined When Arthur Was President? Read >>
We gave the baby boomers plenty of room to play in Read >>
What do all these baby boomers really have in common? Read >>
What’s going to happen when the most prosperous, best-educated generation in history finally grows up? (And just how special are the baby boomers?) Read >>
Given their central role in recent history, baby boomers figure prominently in many of the most important and illuminating books about postwar America. Here are 10 volumes that I found of particular interest.—J.Z. Read >>
A novelist defends himself and 76 million other baby boomers Read >>
10 films that helped shape a generation Read >>
Was the great Orson Welles possibly not all that great? Is there something coarse and generic about one of our most beloved war memorials? Which of our Founding Fathers deserves better of us? Which of our painters? For the eighth year in a row, historians and journalists assess the ever-shifting reputations of people and events, and once again affirm that history is never history - that it is the most volatile, passionate, and living of pursuits. Read >>

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