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For seven days, as the two presidential candidates maneuvered and schemed, the fate of the young republic hung in the ballots
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A new exhibition explores the personal dimensions of war: valor and resolve—but also sacrifice and loss
A North Vietnamese battlefield defeat that led to victory, the Tet Offensive still triggers debate nearly four decades later
The fanciful design of the Smithsonian Castle150 years old in Decemberbucked the neo-classical trend of Washington's other monuments and buildings
Introducing a new department and the editor who runs it
En route to Vietnam in the 1960s, American G.I.'s recorded their hopes and fears on the canvas undersides of troopship sleeping berths
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Archaeologists in Virginia found the footprint of a red brick building lost in the mid-19th century
A century and a half ago, Britain's Roger Fenton pioneered the art of war photography
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The Harvard-trained lawyer and professional baseball player Eddie Grant volunteered to serve in World War I. He fought as he'd played: selflessly
What if Lincoln had lost, or if Theodore Roosevelt had won? How did Franklin Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan emerge to lead a dispirited nation?
Tolstoy Does "Oprah"
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"Your Show of Shows," starring Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca, pioneered madcap TV humor in the 1950s
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They fled terror in Laos after secretly aiding American forces in the Vietnam War. Now 200,000 Hmong prosper-and struggle-in the United States
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The Washington lawyer was an unlikely candidate to write the national anthem; he was against America’s entry into the War of 1812 from the outset
The new National Museum of the American Indian is a proud expression of Native American beliefs
Before the American Revolution, no Thoroughbred did more for racing's growing popularity than a plucky mare named Selima
Seven hundred years ago, William Tell shot an arrow through an apple on his son's head and launched the struggle for Swiss independence. Or did he?
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Spectators braved all manner of discomfort—from oppressive heat to incessant badgering by vendors—to witness ancient Greece's ultimate pagan festival
Celebrating a magazine's good fortuneand a nation's
An ancient Greek wrote the book on biography then and now
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