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Author: Barbara Klaw

GOOD READING

Hollywood Cleans Up Its Act

Author: Ben Yagoda

The curious career of the Hays Office

Pricing The Past

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A splendid gathering of American folk art—half a century before its time

The Mystic Vision Of Everett Scholfield

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A Connecticut photographer’s record of life in a shipbuilding town

Art Of The People

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A major new exhibition celebrates the bright, idiosyncratic paintings of America’s folk artists

George Washington and “The Guilty, Dangerous & Vulgar Honor”

Author: Garry Wills

In an age of ersatz heroes, a fresh look at the real thing

Dear Boss:

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Unpublished letters from Dean Acheson to Ex-President Harry Truman

Consider The Oyster

Author: Joseph Conlin

It saved the early Colonists from starvation, it has caused men to murder each other, it used to be our most democratic food—in short, an extraordinary bivalve

About Face

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How A.A. Griffith abandoned a college presidency to answer the call to greater duty, as explained in the 1884 edition of Hill’s Album of Biography & Art

When Bunkers Last In The Backyard Bloom—d

Author: Walter Karp

The fallout-shelter craze of 1961