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Editors’ Choice

April 2023
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The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl

Authored by: Hiller B. Zobel

Is trial by jury the essential underpinning of our system of justice or—as more and more critics charge—a relic so flawed it should perhaps even be abolished? An experienced trial judge examines the historical evidence in the case.

Authored by: Edward E. Leslie

Drawn to the story of the fearsome Confederate raider by a modern act of violence, the author finds a strange epic in the Rebel’s restless remains

Authored by: Jocelyn W. Knowles

Consigned to the Pennsylvania Railroad’s “Garbage Run,” they fought their own war on the home front, and they helped shape a victory as surely as their brothers and husbands did overseas

Authored by: James G. Barber

A historian of American portraits tells how he determines whether a picture is authentic—and why that authenticity matters

Authored by: Harold Holzer

A report from the field on the battle to authenticate what its owner still hopes is the earliest Lincoln photograph

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