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Topic Archives:Politics

Photo of Mayor James Michael Curley, dressed in his raccoon coat, hands out flowers during South Boston's traditional Evacuation Day parade on March 17, 1947. Mayor Curley's wife, Gertrude, in a smart green hat with a pink ribbon is sitting to his left and Edward J. "Knocko" McCormack in his Yankee Division uniform is in front. The parade originally commemorated the day the British left Boston on March 17, 1776 and now it also honors St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland.

Although As Crooked As They Come, This Boston Politician Was Beloved

by Peter Carlson8/29/20238/1/2023
John Nicolay and John Hay with President Lincoln

Why Did Lincoln’s Right-Hand Men Call Him the ‘Tycoon’?

by Gary W. Gallagher8/17/20238/17/2023

A Vietnam Medal of Honor Recipient Shares Leadership Lessons

by Zita Ballinger Fletcher8/15/20238/17/2023
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A Look at the Dreyfus Affair: Why Was This Soldier Betrayed?

by Jon Guttman8/4/20238/10/2023
Painting of Abraham Lincoln.

Lincoln in His Own Words: The 16th President’s Musings About ‘negro equality’

by Ross E. Heller7/11/20237/12/2023

A Requiem for Daniel Ellsberg

by Larry Porges6/27/20236/27/2023
Photo of French-built Dassault Mirage F1JA, part of the Ecuadoran air force.

The Time Ecuador and Peru Fought a 34-Day War Over a Patch of Amazonian Jungle

by Jerome Long6/16/20239/11/2023
Photo of US President Franklin D. Roosevelt (left) rides in an automobile with Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes (center), and Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace (right). The photo was taken in August of 1933, at the beginning of the New Deal administration.

No One Wants to Grow Up and Be Vice President: The Worst Job in American Politics

by Richard Brookhiser5/30/20235/3/2023

How the Debt Ceiling Went From Boring Economics to Apocalyptic Politics

by Claire Barrett5/23/20235/25/2023

Read Henry Kissinger’s Secret Message on the Fall of Saigon

by HistoryNet Staff5/17/202311/29/2023

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