A century ago American officers Frank Baldwin and John J. Pershing battled a Muslim Filipino insurgency—with strikingly different methods and results
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Daily Quiz for September 28, 2017
This was the name of the express train that took sailors on leave from Pearl Harbor to Honolulu.
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American History Book Review: Revolutionary Founders
Revolutionary Founders: Rebels, Radicals, and Reformers in the Making of the Nation ed. by […]
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American History Book Review: The Clamorgans
The Clamorgans: One Family’s History of Race in America by Julie Winch; Hill and […]
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A Short History of Debt
The last time government red ink posed such a dire threat was during the […]
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Twitter’s Folksy Forerunner
Barack Obama tweets. So do Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich, Tom Hanks, Lady Gaga and […]
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The Devil’s Advance Agent
Women in the 1890s boldly ignored warnings that riding a bicycle could lead to […]
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America’s Greatest Work of Architecture
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater turns 75 this year. A house of genius and mystery, […]
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The Bible According to Thomas Jefferson
No walking on water, no miracles, no virgin birth, no resurrection, but plenty of morality.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne Disses Abe Lincoln
“I have shaken hands with Uncle Abe,” Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote in a letter to […]