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Slovenly, impulsive, impoverished, and grotesque, Constantine Samuel Rafinesque was the greatest naturalist of his age. But nobody knew it.

This is the story of AT&T, from its origins in Bell’s first local call ,to last year’s divestiture. Hail and goodbye.

His job was to destroy German submarines. To do it, they gave him 12 men, three machine guns, four depth charges, and an old wooden fishing schooner with an engine that literally drove mechanics mad.

Have historians underestimated the importance of Roosevelt’s 24-year struggle with the disease that made him a paraplegic?

In 1983, our country went to war and left the press behind. The outcry that followed raised issues that first came up when Abraham Lincoln was president and still remain with us.

The Civil War ignited the basic conflict between a free press and the need for military security. By war’s end, the hard-won compromises between soldiers and journalists may not have provided all the answers, but they had raised all the modern questions.

A veteran reporter looks back to a time when the stakes were really high, and, yet, military men actually trusted newsmen.

Westmoreland and Sharon embarked on costly lawsuits to justify their battlefield judgments. They might have done much better to listen to Mrs. William Tecumseh Sherman.