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Yes, He Could | August/September 1978
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The Guns Of February/march | August/September 1978
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Oh, For The Doughs Of Yesteryear | August/September 1978
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A Glimpse In The Mirror | August/September 1978
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Entertaining Satan | August/September 1978
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The Obsequious Bow | August/September 1978
The Story Behind the Picture That Shocked America Read >>
National Reflections | August/September 1978
A new book presents uncommon portraits of our past from the photographic archives of the Library of Congress Read >>
A Plundered Province Revisited | August/September 1978
The Colonial Status—Past and Present—of the Great American West Read >>
“all Safe, Gentlemen, All Safe!” | August/September 1978
The ups and downs of the invention that forever altered the American skyline Read >>
The Purloined Past | August/September 1978
Sticky-fingered specialists have stolen thousands of documents from every size and sort of historical archive. Read >>
Three Flags At Mackinac | August/September 1978
For more than two centuries, this tiny island fortress was both “the key and the door” to empire Read >>
A Very Bloody Game | August/September 1978
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The American Pantheon, According To Coyle | August/September 1978
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Gunboat War At Vicksburg | August/September 1978
A Union seaman’s nightmarish memories of shot, shell, and shoal waters in Grant’s Mississippi River campaign, 1862–63 Read >>
Tuxedo Park | August/September 1978
An exclusive preserve of New York’s social elite —its rise, its flourishing years, and its slide into genteel decline Read >>
Laura Bridgman | August/September 1978
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The Story Of The Pill | August/September 1978
How a Crash Program Developed an Efficient Oral Contraceptive in Less Than a Decade Read >>
Books We Think You’ll Like | August/September 1978
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Inventing America: Jefferson’s Declaration Of Independence | August/September 1978
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Deep Like The Riversi Education In The Slave Quarter Community, 1831–1865 | August/September 1978
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The Great Circus Street Parade In Pictures | August/September 1978
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First Generation: Oral Histories Of Twentieth-century American Immigrants | August/September 1978
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The Civilization That Wasn’t | August/September 1978
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In Furor Hortensis | August/September 1978
The Garden Club of America-once the diversion of leisured ladies—is now a vigorous environmental league Read >>
The Victorian Lady And Her Flowers | August/September 1978
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The Insult That Made A Man Out Of “mac” | October/November 1978
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An Artist-sportsman’s Portfolio | October/November 1978
A. B. Frost faithfully recorded the woodland pursuits of himself and his affluent friends Read >>
Books We Think You’ll Like | October/November 1978
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Robert Kennedy And His Times | October/November 1978
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The Great American Baseball Scrapbook | October/November 1978
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