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March 2023
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Stories published from "May/June 1996"

Authored by: Gene X Smith

IT BEGAN AS America’s most modern penal institution, and for generations the Vermont State Prison reflected the changing ways by which we thought we should punish our wrongdoers. Then a tormented era and a ghastly crime combined to end its old career—and give it a surprising new one.

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FOUNDING FATHER
Rediscovering George Washington

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THE COLD WAR ENCYCLOPEDIA

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SOLOMON D. BUTCHER Photographing the American Dream

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DRAWN WITH THE SWORD

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MOTHERS OF INVENTION
Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War

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HOW THE OTHER HALF LIVED
A People’s Guide to American Historic Sites

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AND THIS IS FREE The Legendary Slice-of-Life Film from the Streets of Chicago

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THE FRANKLIN CABIN

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