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Politics turned deadly in the early republic when Andrew Jackson and other mudslingers let the insults fly
by Peter Carlson
Houdini Unbound
Every escape he made was a high-stakes gamble that immigrants from the Old World could identify with
by Verlyn Klinkenborg
Praise God and Liberty
Religious believers and doubters formed an unlikely alliance that forged the new American nation
by Thomas S. Kidd
Snowflake Savant
Farmer Wilson Bentley was the first to photograph a single snow crystal
by Mariana Gosnell
Hail Lafayette!
The Frenchman rekindled the spirit of 1776 upon his triumphal return a half-century later
by Ronald H. Bailey
Last Men (and Women) Standing
Aging veterans mark the passage of World War II from memory to history
Photographs by Thomas Sanders
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Letters
Gazette
Wright Brothers wronged; hip-hop history lessons get scratched; Lincoln assassin stalks D.C. baseball; and more
We've Been Here Before
Do eggheads make good presidents?
The First
Computer bug
Interview
Supreme Court gadfly David Gans ponders free speech rights granted to corporations
Details
Ohio's mysterious Great Serpent Mound
The Big Picture
The rise of the monster bank
Encounter
Abraham Lincoln meets Frederick Douglass
Letter From American History
Reviews
Five centuries of African-American history; Social Security at 75; midterm must reads; and more
From America's Attic
Washington inaugural memento, 1789
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