Our Plain Duty: FDR and America’s Social Security Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and […]
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American History Book Review: Children of Fire
Children of Fire: A History of African Americans by Thomas C. Holt; Hill and […]
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Snowflake Savant
An obsessive Vermont naturalist armed with a camera and microscope revealed that every feathery […]
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Houdini Unbound
Every thrilling escape he made involved a high-stakes gamble that immigrants who left the […]
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Pistols at Dawn
Think modern campaign attack ads are bad? Return with us to those thrilling days […]
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Abraham Lincoln Meets Frederick Douglass
On the sweltering morning of August 10, 1863…
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Interview: David Gans / Supreme Court Gadfly
In 2010 the Supreme Court changed the ground rules for electioneering in America when […]
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The First Computer Bug
One week after Americans celebrated the end of World War II, the massive Mark […]
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We’ve Been Here Before: Do Eggheads Make Great Presidents?
Before he became president, Barack Obama taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago […]
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Gazette- American History February 2011
Civil War Photo Trove Celebrates Common Soldiers The collective tragedy of the Civil War—more […]