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One of Washington’s most exuberant monuments—the old Patent Office Building —gets the renovation it deserves
Joe Robinson, Vacation Advocate, Santa Monica, Calif.
His prescription for overworked Americans: chill
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For Studs Terkel, Chicago Was a City Called Heaven
Studs Terkel, America’s best-known oral historian, never wavered in his devotion to the Windy City
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In this Arizona outpost, residents revere the Wild West—and live it
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From Gettysburg to Monticello, a 175 mile thoroughfare leads through a rich concentration of national history
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To see the Revolutionary war through the eyes of slaves is to better understand why so many of them fought for the crown
One hundred years ago this month, John Paul Jones was welcomed home with great fanfare at the U.S. Naval Academy. But was the body really his?
A clash of cultures at Boston’s City Hall in 1976 symbolized the city’s years-long confrontation with the busing of schoolchildren
Review of ‘The Worst Hard Time’
The untold story of those who survived the great American Dust Bowl
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How an Egyptian student came to study 1950s America and left determined to wage holy war
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Lewis and Clark: The Journey Ends
The triumphant return of the Lewis and Clark expedition
Early lessons last a lifetime
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When Franklin Roosevelt Clashed With the Supreme Court—and Lost
Buoyed by his reelection but dismayed by rulings of the justices who stopped his New Deal programs, a president overreaches
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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
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The Vikings: A Memorable Visit to America
The Icelandic house of what is likely the first European-American baby has scholars rethinking the Norse sagas
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Thomas Jefferson, Aaron Burr and the Election of 1800
For seven days, as the two presidential candidates maneuvered and schemed, the fate of the young republic hung in the ballots
What if Lincoln had lost, or if Theodore Roosevelt had won? How did Franklin Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan emerge to lead a dispirited nation?
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Francis Scott Key, the Reluctant Patriot
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
Before the American Revolution, no Thoroughbred did more for racing’s growing popularity than a plucky mare named Selima
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John Lee Hancock’s epic re-creation of the 1836 battle between Mexican forces and Texas insurgents casts the massacre in a more historically accurate light
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