Elizabeth Cady Stanton: An American Life by Lori Ginzberg, Hill & Wang, 272pp., $25 […]
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Monticello: The House of the Future
Inspired by the past, Thomas Jefferson created more than a classic American house. One […]
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Lincoln Chronicles: Dark Night of the Soul
The war’s bloody end game tested Lincoln’s faith in God, democracy and himself. Joshua […]
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Comrade Khrushchev’s American Road Trip
In the summer of 1959, President Dwight Eisenhower invited Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev to […]
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Encounter: Bat Masterson Versus Benjamin Cardozo
The dramatic showdown between Benjamin Cardozo, 42, the future Supreme Court justice and giant […]
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What Can We Do About Mexico?
Invading Mexico: America’s Continental Dream and the Mexican War, 1846-1848 by Joseph Wheelan In […]
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The First: Cash Crop
Tobacco, grown from seeds stolen from the Spanish, was the cash crop that saved […]
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Interview: Robert Shiller / The Economic Oracle Who Saw the Crash Coming
Why did we think the economic boom would last forever? A kind of inebriation—irrational […]
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American History Gazette- October 2009
How Did Meriwether Lewis Die? Descendants of Meriwether Lewis, depicted in a contemporaneous painting, […]
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American History Book Review: The First Family
The First Family: Terror, Extortion, Revenge, Murder, and the Birth of the American Mafia […]