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Historical Era

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Title	Author	Issue Sort ascending
“The Same Firmness of Union”	Maier, Pauline	November/December 2001
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877) The Test of Reconciliation in Terrible Times	McPherson, James	November/December 2001
Our Chances Of A Happier Ending	Spiller, Roger	November/December 2001
Nothing New	Herman, Paul	November/December 2001
“Watch My Generation Now”	Brokaw, Tom	November/December 2001
ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present) 100 Bags of Mail		November/December 2001
Our Only Defense	Lehman, John	November/December 2001
Finding The Killers Is The Easy Part	Khrushchev, Sergei	November/December 2001
ERA 7: The Emergence of Modern America (1890–1930) The Fire Last Time in Lower Manhattan	Ward, Nathan	November/December 2001
ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present) Fighting The Last War, and the Next One	Smoler, Fredric	November/December 2001
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877) Are Our Liberties in Peril?	Zeitz, Joshua	November/December 2001
ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present) The New Warfare and Some Old Truths	Allen, Frederick	November/December 2001
We May Have To Make Some New History	Weinberger, Caspar	November/December 2001
Correspondence		November/December 2001
We Can And Will Learn To Fight This New War	Ambrose, Stephen	November/December 2001
The Steadiness Of The People	Evans, Harold	November/December 2001
The Liberator		November/December 2001
ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present) You Have to Give a Sense of What People were Looking for in Life	Baker, Kevin	November/December 2001
ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present) Toy Guns Were Much Cooler When I Was a Kid	Forbes, Timothy	November/December 2001
Before Trick Or Treat		November/December 2001
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's) Defending America's Role in the Korean War		November/December 2001
Time Machine	O'Brien, Frederic	November/December 2001
ERA 7: The Emergence of Modern America (1890–1930) Keep Those Chinese and Other Asians Out of America!	O'Brien, Frederic	November/December 2001
The 12 Shows Of Christmas		November/December 2001
Be Confident—and Careful	Ellis, Joseph	November/December 2001
Screenings	Barra, Allen	November/December 2001
Free The Salem Five!		November/December 2001
Editors’ Bookshelf		November/December 2001
Brass Classics		November/December 2001
ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present) New York City's Sundry Catastrophes	Baker, Kevin	November/December 2001
ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present) Can History Help?		November/December 2001
History Now		November/December 2001
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's) A Village Disappeared, Thanks to Executive Order 9066	Hoffecker, Lilian	November/December 2001
ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present) The Devil’s Own Day	Snow, Richard	November/December 2001
ERA 8: The Great Depression and World War II (1929–1945) Laura Ingalls Wilder, Pioneer Girl	Miller, John	November 2020
ERA 2: Colonialism and Settlement (1585–1763) Marquette and Jolliet's Excellent Adventure	Walczynski, Mark	November 2020
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877) The O'Learys and the Great Chicago Fire	Smith, Carl	November 2020
ERA 2: Colonialism and Settlement (1585–1763) Upon Starved Rock	Walczynski, Mark	November 2020
Ike Balances the Supreme Court	Reader, Various	November 2020
A Reagan Historian on Ike's Conservatism	Kopelson, Gene	November 2020
ERA 2: Colonialism and Settlement (1585–1763) Have We Found the “Lost Colony”?	Dawson, Scott	November 2020
ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present) The Enigma of Jimmy Carter	Alter, Jonathan	November 2020
ERA 8: The Great Depression and World War II (1929–1945) "This Is London": Murrow During the Blitz	Edwards, Bob	November 2020
ERA 8: The Great Depression and World War II (1929–1945) The ”Holy Grail” of Broadcast Journalism	Klein, Gil	November 2020
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s) Thanksgiving Dinner During The Revolution	Editors, The	November 2020
The Stars When They Shone		November 2000
Ruined Money		November 2000
ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present) Taking America’s Temperature	Weisberger, Bernard	November 2000
ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present) Presenting the Presidents at the Smithsonian	Miller, Donald	November 2000
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's) The Nearly Forgotten War	Snow, Richard	November 2000