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A nationwide gene-purity movement promoted methods that eventually were adopted by the Third Reich. And everyone from John D. Rockefeller to W. E. B. Du Bois supported it.

A soldier-historian looks at how the world has changed in the past decade and finds that America is both hostage to history and likely to be saved by it

The story of Chicago in the nineteenth century is the story of the making of America, Donald L. Miller says. A new PBS documentary based on a book he wrote shows why.

A novelist who has just spent several years with them tells a moving story of love: public and private, given and withheld