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The fight we’re in didn’t begin on September 11; it started thousands of years ago. It’s the struggle between East and West, and history can both encourage and help us—if we read it properly.

John Hope Franklin, the greatest historian of the black experience in America, speaks of what has changed during his long life, and what has not. 

After years of ups and downs, Old Glory has just made a major comeback.

The woman whose great-grandfather introduced pastrami to the New World explores an American institution that is as hard to define as it is easy to recognize.