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Tecumseh’s Last Stand
The destiny of all American Indians rested on the visionary Shawnee’s valiant efforts to create a united front
by Elliott West
Grant Takes on the KKK
The Civil War hero was the last president for nearly a century to fight for the civil rights of blacks
by H.W. Brands
Brawny Art of George Bellows
A feisty painter brought a no-holds-barred sensibility to his boxing and street life canvases
by Claudia Glenn Dowling
Declaration of Freedom
On the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, Maya Angelou, Bill Cosby, John Lewis and others muse about why it still matters
First Encounter
The Pilgrims were greeted with a barrage of arrows when they set foot in the New World
by Stephen Harrigan
Tribe Apart
Three generations of wounded warriors help each other put the ghosts of war to rest at a World War II battleground
by David Grogan
Departments
Letters
Gazette
Gilbert Stuart’s founders come alive; baseball card cache found; Civil War cold case files reopened; De Soto artifacts surface; Buffalo Bill upstaged by William F. Cody; and more
The Big Picture
Corn’s long reign as America’s miracle crop may have ended
We’ve Been Here Before
The Supreme Court has never been above the political fray
The First
American ballet
Details
Human Liberty Bell
Encounter
John Adams bows to King George III
Interview
Andrew Delbanco reveals why the ideal of universal higher education is in jeopardy
Letter From American History
E pluribus unum
Reviews
Black Civil War soldiers get new glory; the latest bio of Harry S.Truman is short and to the point; Mike Wallace rolls footage of America at War
From America’s Attic
William Tecumseh Sherman’s March to the Sea hat
