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Featured Articles
King, Obama, And The Great American Dialogue
Author: Clayborne Carson
What would Martin Luther King Jr.—had he been alive today—thought of our latest president’s oratory?
First Encounters
Author: Willard Sterne Randall
The journeys 400 years ago of a French and Dutch explorer would forever alter the history of North America.
Native Americans First See White Men from the Shore
Author: Colin G. Calloway
New York Indians discover Henry Hudson and his crew in 1765.
Wall Street’s 10 Most Notorious Stock Traders
Author: John Steele Gordon
The country’s financial hub has a long history of lying, cheating, and stealing.
Flight Of The Wasps
Author: Victoria Pope
The Women Airforce Service Pilots seemed strange and exotic to World War II America. In fact, not even the military could quite fiqure out what to do with them.
Champlain Among The Mohawk, 1609
Author: David Hackett Fischer
A soldier-humanist fights a war for peace in North America.