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Adams Appoints Marshall | Winter 2010, Vol 59, No 4
Critical decisions by the chief justice saved the Supreme Court’s independence — and made possible its wide-ranging role today.
Frémont Steals California | Winter 2011, Vol 60, No 4
A junior Army officer, acting on secret orders from the president, bluffed a far stronger Mexican force into conceding North America's westernmost province to the United States.
The Naked Truth Of Battle | Winter 2011, Vol 60, No 4
A preeminent author recalls his experience as one of America's first combat historians, among a handful of men who accompanied soldiers into the bloodiest battles to write history as it was being made.
Placards at the White House | Winter 2010, Vol 59, No 4
In 1917, fed up with the inaction of conservative suffragists, Alice Paul decided on the unorthodox strategy of pressuring the president directly.
Madison’s Radical Agenda | Winter 2010, Vol 59, No 4
A diminutive, persuasive Virginian hijacked the Constitutional Convention and forced the moderates to accept a national government with vastly expanded powers.
Did Castro Okay the Kennedy Assassination? | Winter 2009, Vol 58, No 6
Incriminating new evidence has come to light in KGB files and the authors' interviews of former Cuban intelligence officers which indicates that Fidel Castro probably knew in advance of Oswald's intent to kill JFK.
To call it a loaded question does not begin to do justice to the matter, given America’s tortured racial history and its haunting legacy.
To call it a loaded question does not begin to do justice to the matter, given America’s tortured racial history and its haunting legacy.
15 Classic Books About Black History | July/August 2020, Vol 65, No 4
From The Souls of Black Folk to The New Jim Crow, these texts are essential for anyone trying to understand the black experience in America.
It came over with the Mayflower and stayed on to be the unchallenged drink of democracy.
Ike Shrugged Off Sputnik | October 1997, Vol 48, No 6
Sixty years ago this month, the Soviet Union orbited a “man-made moon” whose derisive chirp persuaded Americans that they’d already lost a race that had barely begun.