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Editor’s Letter | Summer 2009
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The Emancipation Question | Summer 2009
A lively dialogue over the economics of slavery played out in newspapers and magazines on the eve of the Civil War. Read >>
Play Ball! | Summer 2009
In baseball's earliest years, players beaned baserunners and often had to flout town laws prohibiting the game Read >>
Flashback to Woodstock | Summer 2009
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Paterson, New Jersey Honored with a National Historic Park | Summer 2009
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Surprise Inscription Found on Lincoln's Watch | Summer 2009
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Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution, by Richard Beeman | Summer 2009
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Apollo: Through the Eyes of the Astronauts, Edited by Robert Jacobs, Michael Cabbage, Constance Moore, and Bertram Ulrich | Summer 2009
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Drawn to the Past | Summer 2009
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Raising the Dead | Summer 2009
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Letters To The Editor | Summer 2009
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The Man In White | December 1988
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Making The Man | December 1988
An expert on fashion history looks at portraits of some eminent Americans to see what they say about the native style Read >>
1963 Twenty-five Years Ago | December 1988
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The Wild West | December 1988
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To Find Out More | December 1988
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Probity And Zeal | December 1988
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1888 One Hundred Years Ago | December 1988
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1913 Seventy-five Years Ago | December 1988
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The Big Store | December 1988
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1863 One Hundred And Twenty-five Years Ago | December 1988
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1938 Fifty Years Ago | December 1988
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We Were What We Wore | December 1988
Fashion once expressed America’s class distinctions. But it doesn’t any more. Read >>
To Plan A Trip | December 1988
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Slick City Dreams | December 1988
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The Time Machine | December 1988
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The Entrepreneur | December 1988
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The Deep Blue | December 1988
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The Wary Dandy | December 1988
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1813 One Hundred And Seventy-five Years Ago | December 1988
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