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  1. Cuba Libre

    By Richard Reinhardt, November 1995, Volume 46, Issue 7

    Sexy and melancholy, festive and forlorn, the island has always heated the Yankee imagination. The author visits there in the late afternoon of a straitened era and looks back on four centuries of passionate misunderstandings. More >>>

  2. A Nation of Immigrants

    By Bernard A. Wei…, February/March 1994, Volume 45, Issue 1

    It’s a politician’s bromide—and it also happens to be a profound truth. No war, no national crisis, has left a greater impress on the American psyche than the successive waves of new arrivals that quite literally built the country. Now that arguments against immigration are rising again, it is well to remember that every single one of them has been heard before. More >>>

  3. Lincoln’s Plan For Reconstruction

    By Richard N. Current, June 1955, Volume 6, Issue 4

    Lincoln painstakingly evolved a plan for harmonious reconstruction of the Union, which Radical Republicans moved to sabotage More >>>

  4. Bootleg Paradise

    By Wayne Curtis, April/May 2007, Volume 58, Issue 2

    Seeking a monument to Prohibition’s immense impact on American society, the writer finds it in a French colony. More >>>

  5. The Jay Papers Ii: The Forging Of The Nation

    By Richard B. Morris, December 1968, Volume 20, Issue 1

    States they were, united they were not; while their Secretary for Foreign Affairs sought to pull them together, Europe waited for them to fall apart More >>>

  6. Isaac Singer And His Wonderful Sewing Machine

    By Peter Lyon, October 1958, Volume 9, Issue 6

    An erratic genius and his sober-sided partner made their product a household necessity and built fortunes which their numerous progeny have spent in ways both beneficent and bizarre More >>>

  7. Part I Four Centuries Of Surprises

    By David M. Ludlum, June/July 1986, Volume 37, Issue 4

    We talk about it constantly and we arrange our lives around it. So did our parents; and so did the very first colonists. But it took Americans a long time to understand their weather—and we still have trouble getting it right. More >>>

  8. Empires In The Northwest

    By David Lavender, August 1956, Volume 7, Issue 5

    Excerpts from Land of Giants More >>>

  9. “These Lands Are Ours …”

    By Alvin M. Josephy Jr., August 1961, Volume 12, Issue 5

    Only Tecumseh came close to uniting the warring tribes, but his British allies and his less visionary people failed him More >>>

  10. Death Stalked The Grand Reconnaissance

    By William H. Goetzmann, October 1972, Volume 23, Issue 6

    Our half-known new western empire was mapped, in a great mass exploration, by the Army’s Pacific Railroad Surveys of 1853 More >>>

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