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Friends and Allies
Over their staffs' objections, Roosevelt and Churchill set in motion the invasion of North Africa.
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Lafcadio Hearn in New Orleans
The misfit journalist felt at home in the marginalized world he wrote about....
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Impertinent Questions with Carla L. Peterson
On Manhattan's nineteenth-century African-American community
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Unhappy Camper
The hijacking of Vonnegut's early education embarrassed him not just at the time but down the road, when his career...
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Ungoverned Passion
Founding Father and ladies' man Gouverneur Morris flees revolutionary Paris to discover the delights of central Europe...
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Audubon the Writer
The celebrated bird portraitist was also a great artist of the written word.
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Everything Is Divine in Bali
A new exhibit of art, ritual, and performance from a tropical paradise.
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History's Exemplars
Richard Brookhiser shows the relevance of Alexander Hamilton to our modern lives.
By Andrew Ferguson
