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Featured Articles

Canada And The United States, A Centennial Retrospective

Author: Bruce Hutchison

Can a nice, sensitive, schizophrenic young dominion of only one hundred find happiness on the border of a rich, overbearing old republic nearly twice her age?

Althea And The Judges

Author: Brooks W. Maccracken

Farce in the Bedroom, Bedlam at the Bar
Senator Sharon’s Discarded Rose Packed a Pistol, Her Lawyer a Knife. Blood Flowed at Their Last “Appeal,” as They Ambushed a Federal Judge.
as They Ambushed a Federal Judge

American Heritage Book Selection: The Body Snatchers

Author: Thomas Gallagher

Columbia College presented a peaceful exterior in 1788, but inside its medical laboratories something strange was going on; and under cover of darkness freshly interred bodies were disappearing from nearby burying grounds

The Coming Game. Yale Versus Vassar.

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“Affiliation between Vassar and Yale would raise the moral quality of campus life,” says Yale President Brewster. Ah, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

How To Make It To The White House Without Really Trying

Author: David Lavender

President Polk, a Democrat, needed a commander to win his war with Mexico, but all the good generals were Whigs. Now, could the winning general steal the Presidency from the party? As a matter of fact, he did.

A Pack Of Rebels

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A Charleston artist and mapmaker put together a deck of playing cards honoring the heroes of the Confederacy.

Here Come The Wobblies!

Author: Bernard A. Weisberger

To the hard-bitten laborers of the I.W.W., the union was a home, a church, and a holy crusade.

Graves And Grizzlies

Author: Andrew Garcia

A search for a desecrated corpse, an encounter with a 900-pound bear, and a night of terror in Montana, 1879.

Down To The Sea

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Edward Moran’s series of Victorian seascapes recall a vanished national mood—when the eagle screamed, when painters were sentimental and poets misty about the eyes.