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When Dismal Swamps Became Priceless Wetlands

Author: William B. Meyer

American attitudes toward wetlands have taken a 180-degree turn over the last century, and so have the battles they provoke.

The Passion of Typhoid Mary

Author: John Steele Gordon

Mary Mallon could do one thing very well, and all she wanted was to be left to it.

Chaplain Kidder’s Song

Author: Nathan Ward

A D-DAY VETERAN’S GRANDSON ATTEMPTS TO FIND THE ANSWER TO THAT MOST IMPENETRABLE QUESTION: WHAT WAS IT LIKE?

D-Day: What It Meant

Author: Charles Cawthon

A soldier who landed in the second wave on Omaha Beach assesses the broadest implications of what he and his comrades achieved there.

D-Day: What It Cost

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This is a story of the months prior to June 6,1944, and a few of the days following, told through some of the letters my 23-year-old father, Frank Elliott, wrote my mother, Pauline, while he was with Company A of the 741st Tank Battalion, and some that she sent him at the time of the Normandy landings.

The Man of the Century

Author: Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

Of all the Allied leaders, argues FDR's biographer, only Roosevelt saw clearly the shape of the new world they were fighting to create.