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Long, Hot Summer In Indiana
, , , Issue 5It was 1924 and the Klan was riding high. The author’s father, a congressman, wouldn’t join, and this Is how It felt to be an outcast in one’s own home town that summer. More >>>
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Goggles & Side Curtains
, , , Issue 3The roads were terrible, and posted badly or not at all; you had to equip yourself against a hundred mishaps, ninety-three of which actually happened--but you were often up to your hubcaps in pleasure. More >>>
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How America Helped Build The Soviet Machine
, , , Issue 8To bring their nation to the leading edge of technology, Soviet leaders are turning to the United States. Their grandfathers did the same thing. More >>>
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In Windsor Prison
, , , Issue 3IT BEGAN AS America’s most modern penal institution, and for generations the Vermont State Prison reflected the changing ways by which we thought we should punish our wrongdoers. Then a tormented era and a ghastly crime combined to end its old career—and give it a surprising new one. More >>>
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The Road To The Future
, , , Issue 4Fifty years ago the builders of the Pennsylvania Turnpike completed America’s first superhighway—and helped determine the shape of travel to come More >>>
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What Happened Off Devon
, , , Issue 2On the eve of the Normandy invasion, a training mission in the English Channel came apart in fire and horror. For years, the grim story was suppressed. More >>>
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Farewell To Steam
, , , Issue 1The iron horses that built America are nearly all gathered on the other side of Jordan More >>>
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‘A Continuity Of Place And Blood”
, , , Issue 1The Seasons of Man in the Ozarks More >>>
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Rescue Squad
, , , Issue 3TODAY NEARLY HALF a million men and women serve two-thirds of the country in a crucial volunteer service that began only recently—and only because a nine-year-old boy witnessed a drowning More >>>
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Reports from Chechnya: Putin's Way of War
, , , Issue 2A courageous journalist was murdered after warning us twenty years ago about the Russian method of war. More >>>