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ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Founders’ Fondness for Slavery
Architects of American freedom went to great lengths to capture runaways
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ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: America’s First Financial Crisis
A single rich investor's ruin led the infant United States economy into a terrible tizzy
Civil Rights
Birthright Citizenship: Who Gets to Be an American
From Dred Scott to anchor babies, 'Born in the USA' has caused hot debate
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Laws of War | A Neck for a Neck?
In 1782, just a few years into its nationhood, the United States was forced to grapple with the issue of revenge as an instrument of war
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Book Review: Gibraltar
Roy and Lesley Adkins reveal one of the most strategically important American Revolutionary War campaigns — on the far side of the Atlantic
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Book Review: Young Washington
There’s a side to George Washington few Americans know, and Peter Stark reveals it
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May 2019 Readers’ Letters
Readers sound off about Washington crossing the Delaware, World War I relics, the World War II battle in the Aleutians and Braddock's Defeat
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Bob Drury and Tom Clavin: Forging Washington’s Army
The best-selling authors examine the Continental Army’s 1777–78 transformation at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania
Mag: American History Personalities
Eliza Powel: George Washington’s Other Woman
First president's muse and intellectual equal was a Philadelphia socialite
1700s
What We Learned From…Blenheim, 1704
Blenheim was a stupendous victory over absolutism and proved the armies of the French “Sun King” Louis XIV were not invincible
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Many Waters to Cross
On Jan. 2, 1777, within days of crossing the Delaware River, George Washington’s bedraggled Army again faced the enemy—this time across a New Jersey creek
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Nathaniel Philbrick: History Ashore and Afloat
The celebrated author completes his American Revolution trilogy with his book In the Hurricane's Eye
Mag: American History Featured
National Road: America’s First Interstate
First federal infrastructure project cut a path that settlers followed to the future
