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Thunder on the Left: Socialist Victor Berger
Wisconsin congressman was the reform movement's most successful pol
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Audiobook Review| Lincoln’s Last Trial: The Murder Case that Propelled Him to the Presidency
A look into a stenographer's trial transcript, capturing how Abraham Lincoln’s sharp wit and folksy manner saved a client from the noose.
Aviation History
Jesse L. Brown: The U.S. Navy’s First Black Aviator
The son of a sharecropper, Mississippi-born Jesse Leeroy Brown would do whatever it took to become a pilot and break the navy's color barrier.
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Jane Addams, Secular Saint, Scorned During WWI
Progressive heroine's reputation suffered when she tried to sell pacifism as patriotism
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America’s Bonaparte Had His Own Code–Reform
Emperor's grandnephew campaigned for good government and civil rights
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Soldiers Hump the Southwest—with Camels
The antebellum army experimented in traveling with the four-legged ships of the desert
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ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: The Great Slave Auction
In 1859, 429 human beings were put up on the block
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Ho Chi Minh’s Failed Versailles Gambit
Vietnamese communist leader thought he could win Wilson's backing against the French
Homepage US History
Wine, Women and…What’s Wrong With That?
Everything, according to Victorian era mores, which deemed ‘wine rooms’ attached to Western saloons dens of iniquity that lured women into vice
American History Magazine
Audiobook Review | Scarface and the Untouchable: Al Capone, Eliot Ness, and the Battle for Chicago
Authors Max Allan Collins and A. Brad Schwartz unravel the compelling tale of infamous Chicago criminal, Al Capone, and Eliot Ness, the man who brought him down.
Arts and Culture
ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Cindy Walker, Texas Songbird
Spunky singer-songwriter made it big with Western sound
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Teenage Mediums Out-Foxed the Public
Fancy footwork convinced crowds sisters could chat with the dead
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Eliza Powel: George Washington’s Other Woman
First president's muse and intellectual equal was a Philadelphia socialite