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In the twilight of Castro’s regime, one of the soldiers who put him in power recalls what it was like to be a fidelista up in the hills four decades ago when a whole new, just, democratic world was there for the building.

How we became a nation of instant, constant borrowers

A rare survivor of New England’s earliest days testifies to the strength that forged a nation.

Seeking the truth of an event in the memories of the people who lived it can be a maddening and exhilarating task.

A child of the South's "Lost Cause," Truman broke with his convictions to make civil rights a concern of the national government for the first time since Reconstruction. In so doing, he changed the nation forever.