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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.