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Forty years changed almost everything, but not the author’s gleaming, troubling memories of Miss Clark. So, he went looking for her.

An interview with Bill and Hillary Clinton

America looked good to a high school senior then, and that year looks wonderfully safe to us now, but it was a time of tumult, and there were plenty of shadows, along with the sunshine.

An Interview with Walter Cronkite

A wide range of historians, writers, and public figures reflect on “the most important, or interesting, or overlooked way in which America has changed"

You’ve probably never heard of them, but these ten people changed your life. Each of them is a big reason why your world today is so different from anyone’s world in 1954.