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March 2023
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Lost Tribes and Promised Landsi The Origins of American Racism The Faustball Tunnel, German POWs in America and Their Great Escape The States and the Nation The Smithsonian Collection of Newspaper Comics

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Stories published from "June/July 1978"

Authored by: The Editors

A Tireless Photographer’s Record of a River Town

Authored by: John Keats

Wills are forever— or so we like to think. But what happens when they offend the changing public interest? Consider the curious

Authored by: Spencer Klaw

What’s Happened to the Long Gray Line

Authored by: Neil Rolde

The Passion of Percy Baxter—

Authored by: Bruce Catton

Gettysburg, Fifty Years After

Authored by: Martha Saxton

Institutionalizing the American Honeymoon

Authored by: Bruce Catton

TRUSTING OURSELVES

Authored by: The Editors

Some Statistics and a Cautionary Note

Authored by: Stephen W. Sears

A British Officer Portrays Colonial America

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