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July/August 1987
Volume38Issue5
July 16: The Constitutional Convention adopts the Great Compromise, in which proportional representation exists in one branch of the legislature and an equal vote for each state exists in the other.
July 16: The Constitutional Convention adopts the Great Compromise, in which proportional representation exists in one branch of the legislature and an equal vote for each state exists in the other.
Rarely has the full story been told about how a famed botanist, a pioneering female journalist, and First Lady Helen Taft battled reluctant bureaucrats to bring Japanese cherry trees to Washington.
Often thought to have been a weak president, Carter was strong-willed in doing what he thought was right, regardless of expediency or the political fallout.
Why have thousands of U.S. banks failed over the years? The answers are in our history and politics.
In his Second Inaugural Address, Abraham Lincoln embodied leading in a time of polarization, political disagreement, and differing understandings of reality.
Native American peoples and the lands they possessed loomed large for Washington, from his first trips westward as a surveyor to his years as President.