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President Johnson shocked the nation when he ended his bid for reelection in 1968. As early as 1964, Lady Bird had suggested that he might not want to run for a second term.
Enormous crowds greeted the Marquis de Lafayette, the French hero of the American Revolution, during his visit to all 24 states nearly 40 years after the war ended.
In a momentous couple of years, the young United States added more than a million square miles of territory, including Texas and California.
We can’t let the home of one of the great heroes of the American Revolution be demolished.
Classic Essays from Our Archives
Growing Up Colored | Summer 2012, Vol 62, No 2
By Henry Louis Gates Jr.The noted writer and educator tells of his boyhood in the West Virginia town of Piedmont, where African Americans were second-class citizens, but family pride ran deep.
"I Had Prayed To God That This Thing Was Fiction…" | February 1990, Vol 41, No 1
By William WilsonHe didn’t want the job but felt he should do it. For the first time, the soldier who tracked down the My Lai story for the office of the inspector general in 1969 tells what it was like to do some of this era’s grimmest detective work.
Herbert Hoover Describes the Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson | June 1958, Vol 9, No 4
By Herbert HooverThe great tragedy of the twenty-eighth President as witnessed by his loyal lieutenant, the thirty-first.
Did Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson Love Each Other? | Fall 2008, Vol 58, No 5
By Annette Gordon-ReedTo call it loaded question does not begin to do justice to the matter, given America’s tortured racial history and its haunting legacy.
Searching for “Shenandoah” | Winter 2022, Vol 67, No 1
By Bruce WatsonIt's one of the oldest folk ballads in our national songbook, but where did it come from? The answer is complex, multi-layered, American.
How My Father and President Kennedy Saved The World | October 2002, Vol 53, No 5
By Sergei KhrushchevThe Cuban Missile Crisis as seen from the Kremlin
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Dillinger gunned down
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Lincoln announces Emancipation Proclamation to Cabinet
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John White leads colonists to Roanoke
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