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  1. The Week The World Watched Selma

    By Stephen B. Oates, June/july 1982, Volume 33, Issue 4

    A century after passage of the Fifteenth Amendment, many Southern blacks still were denied the vote. In 1965 Martin Luther King, Jr, set out to change that—by marching through the heart of Alabama. More >>>

  2. The Famous Cyclorama Of The Great Battle Of Atlanta

    By Bruce Catton, February 1956, Volume 7, Issue 2

    There have been few more desperate fights than the one in which John B. Hood vainly tried to block the invasion of the South More >>>

  3. The Third Day at Gettysburg

    By Frank Aretas Haskell, December 1957, Volume 9, Issue 1

    First lieutenant on Brigadier General John Gibbon’s staff, at Gettysburg; later colonel of the 36th Wisconsin; killed at Cold Harbor. More >>>

  4. Nation Of Gamblers

    By J. M. Fenster, September 1994, Volume 45, Issue 5

    Once seen as a vice and now as a public panacea, the national passion that got Thomas Jefferson in trouble has been expanding for two centuries More >>>

  5. “Mother, I Do Not Hate To Die”

    By James Cameron Phifer, February 1967, Volume 18, Issue 2

    A choice between life and honor is a fearful one for any man. Here is the unforgettable story of how it was made by a twenty-one-year-old Confederate private. More >>>

  6. “These Are No Ordinary Times”

    By Adam Hochschild, Winter 2023, Volume 68, Issue 1

    A hundred years ago, America was rocked by riots, repression, and racial violence. More >>>

  7. The Forty-year Run

    By Roy Hoopes, November 1992, Volume 43, Issue 7

    William Randolph Hearst was a journalist, politician, art collector, and bon vivant with a passion for power, possessions, and women.  More >>>

  8. What Happened At Mountain Meadows?

    By Sally Denton, October 2001, Volume 52, Issue 7

    The truth is still emerging about the mass murder of more than 100 California-bound emigrants in Utah in 1857, and about the role of leaders of the Mormon Church in the atrocity. More >>>

  9. The Great Chief Justice

    By Fred Rodell, December 1955, Volume 7, Issue 1

    Neither the Constitution nor the laws but John Marshall made the Court Supreme More >>>

  10. Rebels And Redcoats

    By George F. Scheer, February 1957, Volume 8, Issue 2

    Participants describe the opening of the American Revolution More >>>

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