Articles with keyword "United States"
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Curiously Reckless Rebels
An exquisitely fine pencil drawing hanging in a bedroom at Tudor Place in Georgetown in the nation’s capital has a tragic tale to tell that is lacking in some basic details.
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Ain’t That the Truth
Webster's Third: The Most Controversial Dictionary in the English Language.
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Living Off the Landscape
How Thomas Cole and Frederic Church made themselves at home in the Hudson River Valley.
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Simple Things
Oregon Humanities magazine’s summer ’09 issue provokes much thought on the matter of things, possessions, or, as the editors call it, “stuff.” The issue is stuffed with stuff on stuff, includ
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Apocalypse Not
In few fields is the gap separating educated opinion from specialist opinion so wide as in linguistics.
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Love and Hate during Wartime
In the Lizzie Gilmore collection of family letters, available through Community and Conflict, a new digital archive devoted to life in the Ozarks during the Civil War, the formalities of correspondenc
