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The American Presidency
, , , Issue 1The struggles and triumphs of our Presidents have been central to shaping our nation, even though they operated under a Constitution that didn’t grant them unilateral power. More >>>
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The Tour Of Prince Napoleon
, , , Issue 5A FRENCH VISIT TO CIVIL WAR AMERICA Selections from the letters of Lieutenant Colonel Camille Ferri Pisani, who accompanied Prince Napoleon on his state visit, touring the fronts, both North and South, visiting the West and meeting Lincoln and the men around him during the Union’s darkest days More >>>
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Casey At The Bat
, , , Issue 6The classic American baseball poem might have vanished if not for an actor's impromptu performance. More >>>
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Missy LeHand: FDR's Influential but Largely Forgotten Assistant
, , , Issue 1She functioned as Franklin Roosvelt's de facto chief-of-staff, yet Missy LeHand's role has been misrepresented and overlooked by historians. More >>>
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The Big Parade
, , , Issue 2Once the South was beaten, Eastern and Western troops of the Union army resented each other so violently that some feared for the survival of the victorious government. Then the tension disappeared in one happy stroke that gave the United States its grandest pageant—and General Sherman the proudest moment of his life. More >>>
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Seward’s Wise Folly
, , , Issue 1In Alaska a much-abused Secretary of State saw a fabulous bargain, and what might have been a Russian beachhead became instead our forty-ninth state More >>>
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Sitting On A Gusher
, , , Issue 2How gullible Edwin L. Drake, an ailing ex-railroad conductor, brought about America’s first and gaudiest oil boom More >>>
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A Reasonable Doubt
, , , Issue 6HISTORY AT MIDDLE DISTANCE The charge was rape. The accuser was a southern white woman, the accused were Negroes. But what kind of woman was Victoria Price? And what had really happened aboard that freight train? More >>>
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Triumph At Yorktown
, , , Issue 6Everything depended on a French fleet leaving the Indies on time; two American armies meeting in Virginia on time; a French fleet beating a British fleet; a French army getting along with an American one; and a British general staying put. More >>>
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I Love Washington
, , , Issue 3A noted historian’s very personal tour of the city where so much of the American past took shape—with excursions into institutions famous and obscure, the archives that are the nation’s memory, and the haunts of some noble ghosts More >>>