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Sixty-five years after Russell Lee photographed New Mexico homesteaders coping with the Depression, a Lee admirer visits the town for a fresh slice of life
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Confronting the British in Boston in 1775, Gen. George Washington honed the qualities that would carry the day in war and sustain the new nation in peace
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Severe cold and fraternizing with the Mandan keep Meriwether Lewis' doctoring in demand
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Founded by a freed slave, an Illinois town was a rare example of biracial cooperation before the Civil War
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To a war-weary nation, a U.S. POW's return from captivity in Vietnam in 1973 looked like the happiest of reunions
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America's first permanent colonists have been considered incompetent. But new evidence suggests that it was a drought—not indolence—that almost did them in
A new exhibition probes the contradictions of an advanced civilization that practiced human sacrifice
In Vilnius, Lithuania, preservationists are creating a living memorial to the nation's 225,000 Holocaust victims
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The Icelandic house of what is likely the first European-American baby has scholars rethinking the Norse sagas
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A new museum celebrates the Underground Railroad, the secret network of people who bravely led slaves to liberty before the Civil War
For more than a decade, American Robert Graf has combed the waters of a Seychelles island for a multimillion-dollar booty stashed by pirates 300 years ago
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The birth of the TV dinner started with a mistake
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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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