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Looking Back on the Clinton Impeachment
Author: Joshua Zeitz
The Senate convened twenty years ago to determine whether President Bill Clinton had committed "high crimes and misdemeanors"
Reassessing William Howard Taft
Author: Jeffrey Rosen
Taft is remembered for emphasizing constitutional restraint as President, but he also set aside more public lands and brought more anti-trust suits than his predecessor, Theodore Roosevelt. And he set the standard for integrity and personal conduct in the White House.
The Importance of Mill Springs
Author: Jack Hurst
The first significant Union victory in the Civil War is now honored at one of the newest National Monuments. It was a battle too often ignored by historians and the public.
Abraham Lincoln Invents Presidents Day
Author: J.M. Fenster
“It is recommended,” proclaimed Lincoln, that the People “celebrate the anniversary of the Birthday of the Father of his Country."
Agony and Triumph at Anzio
Author: Flint Whitlock
Seventy-five years ago, Allied soldiers made a daring amphibious landing behind German lines and were soon surrounded in what would become one of the toughest battles of World War II
1619: The Year That Shaped America
Author: James Horn
Four hundred years ago this year, two momentous events happened in Britain’s fledgling colony in Virginia: the New World’s first democratic assembly convened, and an English privateer brought kidnapped Africans to sell as slaves. Such were the conflicted origins of modern America.
Blackface: the Sad History of Minstrel Shows
Author: Edwin S. Grosvenor, Robert C. Toll
For most of the 1800s, whites in blackface performed in widely popular minstrel shows, creating racist stereotypes that endured for more than a century.