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Historians

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The Big Picture

Political historian Jeremi Suri has come up with a new way of looking at the links between the low and the mighty

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Flower Power

Studying ancient botanical drawings, Daniela Bleichmar is rewriting the history of the Spanish conquest of the Americas

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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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Portraits of Her People

Historian, photographer and Macarthur “genius,” Deborah Willis documents the black experience

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