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The Day Kennedy Was Shot
, , , Issue 7A routine chore for JFK’s official photographer became the most important assignment of his career. Much of his moving pictorial record appears here for the first time. More >>>
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The Residue Of Assassination
, , , Issue 3One hundred and fifteen years ago, on the evening of April 14, 1865, at Washington’s Ford’s Theater, John Wilkes Booth murdered Abraham Lincoln and, with a leg broken after leaping from the pres More >>>
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A Graceful Exit
, , , Issue 4In one momentous decision, Robert E. Lee spared the United States years of divisive violence More >>>
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Dr. Mary Edwards Walker Gets Hers… Back
, , , Issue 1For thirty-five years, Dr. Mary Edwards Walker enjoyed her standing as the only woman ever to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor; then in 1917 they took it away from her; then in 1977 they ga More >>>
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Smithsonian National Museum Of American History
The National Museum of American History offers a collection of Americana as rich and diverse as the country that created them.It collects and preserves more than 3 million artifacts, from the original More >>>
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Libbie Custer
, , , Issue 8She spent almost sixty years commemorating her marriage—and her memories of it quite literally kept her alive More >>>
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George Washington’s Monument
, , , Issue 1What does a nation give a man who has everylflrthing? If a man happens to be the country’s first citizen, he may be rewarded with honor and fame and the respect of high office; after death, his n More >>>
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The Farm Boy And The Angel
, , , Issue 6Of sensitive, mystical Joseph Smith, of a heavenly visitor and a buried scripture, and of the founding of a new religion destined to enlist many followers and carve from the desert a new Zion More >>>
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The Personal Reminiscences Of Albert Lasker
, , , Issue 1Albert Davis Lasker made no speeches and wrote almost nothing for publication, and when he died, on May 30, 1952, very few people paused to read the obituaries; yet the newspapers and magazin More >>>
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Sacco Guilty, Vanzetti Innocent?
, , , Issue 4Four years ago Mr. Russell claimed in our pages that the central figures in the famous trial at Dedham had been unjustly executed. Now he has restudied the long record, held new ballistic tests, and reached a dramatic new conclusion. Should not the verdict be, he asks: More >>>