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Title	Author	Issue
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's) The Night I Met Elvis	Wilkie, Curtis	November/December 2024
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's) Seeking the Unvarnished Truth	Bunch, Lonnie	Fall 2024
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's) The Tragedy of Emmett Till	Collins, Ronald	Fall 2024
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's) The Museum of Democracy Finds a Home	Bleyer, Bill	Fall 2024
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's) A Day When Hope Died	Meyer, Eugene	Winter 2024
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's) Why Did Ruby Kill Oswald?	Griffin, Burt	Winter 2024
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's) What Was a Woman Doing There?	Garrett, Wilbur	Fall 2023
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's) Catherine Leroy Parachutes into Danger	Becker, Elizabeth	Fall 2023
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's) Special Section: Women Journalists in Vietnam	Grosvenor, Edwin	Fall 2023
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's) Dickey Chapelle in the Fight	Rinehart, Lorissa	Fall 2023
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's) Struggling to End the War	Overy, Richard	August 2023
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's) Ernie Pyle Digs in at Anzio	Chrisinger, David	Summer 2023
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's) The “Greatest Upset” in World Cup History	Watson, Bruce	Winter 2023
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's) What Can We Learn from Losing Presidential Candidates?	Shea, Peter	November/December 2022
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's) Discovering Doc Watson		September 2022
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's) “Freedom is in My Soul”	Blain, Keisha	September 2022
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's) “I Am in Birmingham Because Injustice is Here"	Watson, Bruce	Winter 2022
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's) Revenge of the Nevada	Offley, Ed	June 2021
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's) Eisenhower’s Gifts	Gelfand, Marvin	February/March 2021
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's) Truman Dogged by Charges of “Favoritism and Influence”	Boylan, James	February/March 2021
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's) JFK's Fighter-Bombers	Gelfand, Mark	February/March 2021
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's) On the Road with the Green Book	Taylor, Candacy	Summer 2021
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's) Ike Balances the Court	Eisenhower, Susan	October 2020
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's) Bred to Power: The Dulles Brothers	Stewart, David	July/August 2020
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's) Sergei Khrushchev and the Soviet Union	Brush, Chase	July/August 2020
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's) A First Look Inside Joe McCarthy’s Secret Files	Grosvenor, Edwin	July/August 2020
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's) The Legacy of the Warren Court	Stone, Geoffrey	Winter 2020
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's) The Woman Who Said “No” to McCarthy	Watson, Bruce	Winter 2020
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's) Rachel Carson and Silent Spring	Lear, Linda	Winter 2020
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's) Robert F. Kennedy in Mississippi	Meacham, Ellen	Spring 2019
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's) Secret Race to the Pole	Grosvenor, Edwin	Spring 2018
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's) Tears for Marjory Stoneman Douglas	Grosvenor, Edwin	Spring 2018
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's) Shocked by Sputnik Sixty Years Ago	Grosvenor, Edwin	Fall 2017
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's) Bill Veeck: The Maverick Who Changed Baseball	Dickson, Paul	Summer 2017
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's) 25 Years Ago	Editors, The	Summer 2012
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's) The Sage of Black Rock	Brinkley, Douglas	Spring 2012
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's) Picturing Alaska	Brinkley, Douglas	Winter 2011
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's) Wrong Turns In Korea	Dallek, Robert	Fall 2010
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's) Compromise 5: Medicare’s Complicated Birth	Dallek, Robert	Summer 2010
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's) The Summer Of Our Discontent	Watson, Bruce	Summer 2010
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's) The 1960 Sit-in At The Woolworth’s	Kopper, Philip	Spring 2010
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's) JFK Writes about Our Nation’s Memory	Kennedy, John	Winter 2010
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's) Miracle Workers	Oshinsky, David	Winter 2010
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's) King Maker	Carson, Clayborne	Winter 2010
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's) First Blood in Vietnam	Karnow, Stanley	Winter 2010
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's) Shooting the Moon	McDougall, Walter	Winter 2010
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's) Did Castro Okay the Kennedy Assassination?	Russo, Gus	Winter 2009
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's) Disaster at a Distant Moon	Jones, Tom	Fall 2008
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's) Grace Kelley: America’s Princess	Diehl, Digby	Winter 2008
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's) A Lost Opportunity	Fennell, Philip	April/May 2007