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Two hundred years ago, the conflict in which the U.S. seized the Deep South from its Native inhabitants was a turning point in American history, but it is largely forgotten today.

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My grandparents were murdered during the Osage Reign of Terror. It took my family generations to recover.

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Classic Essays from Our Archives

1619: The Year That Shaped America  | Winter 2019, Vol 64, No 1

By James Horn

Four hundred years ago this year, two momentous events happened in Britain’s fledgling colony in Virginia: the New World’s first democratic assembly convened, and an English privateer brought kidnapped Africans to sell as slaves. Such were the conflicted origins of modern America.

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Ike's Son Remembers George S. Patton Jr. | Summer 2012, Vol 62, No 2

By John D. Eisenhower

The author, who once served under General Patton and whose father, Dwight D. Eisenhower, was Patton's commanding officer, shares his memories of "Ol' Blood and Guts"

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A Yankee Among The War Lords | October 1970, Vol 21, No 6

By Barbara W. Tuchman

First of the Three Parts from STILWELL THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE IN CHINA 1911-1945

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The Man of the Century | May/June 1994, Vol 45, No 3

By Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

Of all the Allied leaders, argues FDR's biographer, only Roosevelt saw clearly the shape of the new world they were fighting to create

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"The Sparck of Rebellion" | Winter 2010, Vol 59, No 4

By Douglas Brinkley

Badly disguised as Indians, a rowdy group of patriotic vandals kicked a revolution into motion

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Herbert Hoover Describes the Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson | June 1958, Vol 9, No 4

By Herbert Hoover

The great tragedy of the twenty-eighth President as witnessed by his loyal lieutenant, the thirty-first.

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    Today in History

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    President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Lend-Lease into effect, allowing the United States to lend military and civilian supplies to Allied countries during World War II. The policy, instituted by the Lend-Lease Administration, sent $50.1 billion to Great Britain, the Soviet Union, France, and China.

  • Confederate Constitution finalized

    The Constitution of the Confederate States of America is signed in Montgomery, Alabama by representatives from South Carolina, Georgia, Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida. Derived from the United States Constitution, it delegates more rights to the states and explicitly protects slavery.

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