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Published: April 07, 2009 at 4:20 pm
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What Do We Owe the Indians?
21st-century battles over America's dwindling resources loom as a new generation of savvy warriors insists we honor the solemn promises made in 371 active treaties, some …
Published: April 07, 2009 at 4:09 pm
Banking Mess
The idea that Thomas Jefferson is to blame for the United States' history of financial panics is truly absurd ("The Founding Father of American Financial Disaster," April 2009). It's been 200 years since Jefferson left office. That's 200 …
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Published: April 07, 2009 at 4:09 pm
Despite more than two centuries of broken treaties and displacement by white
settlers, Native American tribes have not only survived but they retain the
legal status of sovereign nations accorded to them by the nation's founders.
These issues are explored in an article by Paul VanDevelder.
Published: February 05, 2009 at 1:49 pm
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The Founding Father of American Financial Disaster
Thomas Jefferson gave us life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness and financial insecurity
by John Steele Gordon
What's a Dollar Really Worth?
Watch it shrink
datagraphic …
Published: February 05, 2009 at 1:45 pm
Did Thomas Jefferson's deep distrust of banks wreck our American
Dream?
Published: February 05, 2009 at 1:44 pm
The Whole Truth
I'm curious as to why Bruce Chadwick, in "The Mysterious Death of Judge George Wythe" (February 2009), didn't mention the widespread rumor that Wythe's protégé and fellow murder victim, Michael Brown, was his son with his maid …
Published: December 10, 2008 at 11:57 am
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THE LINCOLN CHRONICLES
DANGEROUS AMBITION
How a frustrated small-town lawyer jumpstarted his political career by threatening the Union
by H.W. Brands
THE MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF JUDGE GEORGE WYTHE
Arsenic felled Jefferson's fellow founder …
Published: December 10, 2008 at 11:53 am
Prohibition Reevaluated
Peter Carlson’s article “Uneasy About Alcohol” (December 2008) was full of accurate information, but the statement that “Prohibition not only failed to eradicate slums and prisons, it even failed to curtail drinking,” is disproved by the elaborate graph, …
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Published: December 10, 2008 at 11:53 am
The year 2009 marks the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth, and it provides an occasion to honor the memory of America's greatest president: the savior of the Union and the emancipator of America's slaves. The festivities have already begun, and …
Published: November 20, 2008 at 12:39 pm
A letter from the editor of American History magazine says America is in the midst of a new era of temperance following a national alcoholic binge triggered by the end of Prohibition 75 years ago.
Published: November 20, 2008 at 12:38 pm
Readers write to American History magazine about James Madison; presidents on the radio; Alexander Hamilton's descendants; Ronald Reagan; Barrack Obama; and the real first Thanksgiving.
Published: November 18, 2008 at 12:47 pm
Table of contents for December 2008 issue of American History magazine which featured articles on America and alcohol; Samuel Adams; early photography; mountain man medicine and more.
Published: August 05, 2008 at 4:12 pm
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HOW THE WEST WAS SPUN
by Stephen G. Hyslop
Buffalo Bill's Wild West show featured real-life cowboys and Indians and perpetuated a myth that still colors our understanding of the frontier.
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Published: August 05, 2008 at 4:06 pm
Readers share their thoughts on articles about slaves' memoirs, first ladies, soldiers who sought the American presidency, George Washington's driveway, and Plessy v. Ferguson's "one drop of blood."
Published: May 01, 2008 at 10:28 am
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Pirates of the Revolution
By Robert H. Patton
Patriotism was important, but profit was a great motivator for congressionally licensed privateers who turned the tide for American independence.…
Published: April 28, 2008 at 7:07 pm
George Washington's Winning Ways
George Washington had a big problem. He was charged with leading his nascent nation—a collection of rough-hewn colonies—in waging war against the world's greatest superpower. He had an army, of sorts, to do battle with …
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