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Meeting the Japanese Pilot Who Killed My Dad

Author: Francis R. Stevens, Jr.

Half a century after his father’s death, he struck up an extraordinary friendship with the man who shot his plane down.

Real Work in Deep Snow

Author: Tom Brokaw

Connections with childhood, with a way of looking at life, and with a generation that remade our world

Who Was Wyatt Earp?

Author: Allen Barra

From law officer to murderer to Hollywood consultant: the strange career of a man who became myth

How to Enjoy Christmas Without George Bailey

Author: Thomas Macaren

Here are 12 classic holiday movies worth seeing when you can’t sit through It’s a Wonderful Life one more time.

Coya Knutson: The Woman of the Century

Author: Richard Reeves

You’ve likely never heard of her.

America the Apologetic

Author: Richard Brookhiser

Should our leaders say they’re sorry about slavery? About Indians? About their personal behavior? Such questions are hardly new; public contrition has been a national preoccupation for centuries.

Fly Me to the Moon

Author: Max Rudin

Reflections on the Rat Pack: Many people know what they did. This is what they meant.

Sometimes, Our Job Is to Say No

Author: Jesse Helms

The head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee explains why it has always frustrated presidents, and why it doesn’t have to.