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Featured Articles
There Is Something about a Martini
Author: Max Rudin
IT’S MORE THAN JUST A POTENT DRINK, AND MORE THAN THE INSPIRATION FOR SOME HANDSOME ANCILLARY EQUIPMENT. IT IS MODERN TIMES, BROUGHT TO YOU IN A BEAUTIFUL CHALICE.
Making Sense of the Fourth of July
Author: Pauline Maier
The Declaration of Independence is not what Thomas Jefferson thought it was when he wrote it, and that's why we celebrate it.
Cagney Did "Yankee Doodle Dandy" to Prove He Wasn't a Commie
Author: Fred Anderson
Locked in a strange, testy collaboration lit by the fires of a burning world, George M. Cohan and James Cagney produced a masterpiece of popular history in which everything is true except the facts.
The American Fireworks Fetish
Author: Jack Kelly
What lasts a couple of seconds, ravishes the eye, and calms the soul? Americans have known since 1608.
Lifeline to a Sinking Continent
Author: Robert James Maddox
American self-interest was involved, of course, but the Marshall Plan remains what some have referred to as a rare example of “power used to its best end.”
Unlike Clinton's Rich Guests, Lincoln Never Slept in "The Lincoln Bedroom"
Author: Harold Holzer