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A historian looks at the distinctive Midwestern identity of Wilder and her "Little House on the Prairie" books.
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He was unlike any other baseball star in America, a blond-haired boy from the heartland whose raw power and mythical purity made him a hero
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Toward the end of World War I, American doctors fought an invisible enemy on the home front — a pandemic that would kill more people than any other outbreak of disease in human history.
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Jim McCloskey and a handful of other advocates do the tough work of helping the wrongfully convicted.
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When the leading European naturalist visited America and met with Thomas Jefferson, it had a profound impact on the young nation.
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After we published the Papers at the Washington Post, the Supreme Court decision in our favor has underpinned American freedom of the press.
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An estimated fifteen hundred privateering ships played a crucial role in winning the American Revolution, but their contributions are often forgotten.
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Because of wartime gas rationing, Congress and the Administration debated cancelling the famous gridiron match-up between Army and Navy in 1942. President Roosevelt found a novel solution.
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David McCullough’s latest book tells the story of a small group of Revolutionary War veterans and pioneers who set out on an extraordinary 800-mile journey through the wilderness to establish the first settlement in the Ohio Territory.
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In the blackest days of the Great Potato Famine in Ireland, Americans responded by organizing the first international humanitarian mission, sending food and provisions in the refitted warship USS Jamestown.
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