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Opening China

Author: Oscar V. Armstrong

Once again, Americans are learning the delicate art of trading with the biggest market on earth. Here’s how they did it the first time.

The Social Evil Ordinance

Author: James Wunsch

—More than a century ago, the city of St. Louis enacted a well-thought-out plan to legalize vice. What went wrong? Everything .

Celebrities

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The sad story of a magazine born eighty years too soon

Between The Battles

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Far from home and in the face of every kind of privation, the Civil War soldier did his best to re-create the world he left behind him

The FDR Tapes

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Secret recordings made in the Oval Office of the President in the autumn of 1940

“The Miraculous Care Of Providence”

Author: James Thomas Flexner

George Washington’s Narrow Escapes

Congo Square

Author: Frederick Turner

An Inquiry Into the Origins of Jazz

The Ursuline Outrage

Author: Carmine A. Prioli

In the shadow of Bunker Hill, bigots perpetrated an atrocity that showed a shocked nation that the fires of the Reformation still burned in the New World

Lincoln’s Life Preserver

Author: Charles B. Strozier

To stave off despair, the President relied on a sense of humor that was rich, self-deprecating—and surprisingly bawdy