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People Archives:U.S. Presidents

Painting of Rising political star William Crawford’s life was upended when medicine he took for a skin ailment brought on a debilitating stroke.

John Fetterman Isn’t the First Ill Politician to Serve. Here Are Examples from History

by Richard Brookhiser3/14/20233/14/2023
Photo of a tank at The World War II American Experience Museum.

Take a Tank Ride… at Gettysburg

by American History Editors2/21/20232/23/2023

Read a Letter From Ho Chi Minh to U.S. President Truman Before the Vietnam War Began

by Ho Chi Minh2/3/20232/3/2023
Abraham Lincoln posing with books

A Pulitzer Prize Winner Explores a ‘morally imperfect’ Abraham Lincoln

by Rick Beard2/2/20232/2/2023

US Spy Satellites Took Pictures of the Soviets in the 1960s. How Did the Film Get Back to Earth?

by Barry Levine2/1/20233/7/2023
Photo of a flag outside the NAACP office with "A Man Was Lynched Yesterday" on it.

This Journalist Risked His Life to Reveal the Horrors of Lynching in the South

by Peter Carlson1/31/20232/26/2024
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How W.Britain Has Been Making Model Soldiers—For 130 Years

by Zita Ballinger Fletcher1/26/20231/26/2023
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How North Korean Assassins Slipped By American Patrols and Almost Started a Coup

by John D. Howard1/24/20231/24/2023
Lewis and Clark Expedition titled Lewis and Clark on the Lower Columbia by Charles Marion Russell depicting Sacagawea with arms outstretched

Lewis and Clark’s Race Against Spain

by By Mike Coppock1/24/20231/24/2023
Photo of John Henry Parker

This 51-Year-Old Was the Only Foot Soldier of WWI to Earn 4 Distinguished Service Crosses

by David T. Zabecki1/20/20233/30/2023

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