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The Constitution is more than a legal code. It is also a framework for union and solidarity.
Charles Lindbergh and the isolationists of American First opposed Lend Lease and Roosevelt’s attempts to prepare for possible war in Europe.
The boy's vicious killing in Mississippi in 1955 helped to transform America's racial consciousness.
In the hundred years since his death, features of Woodrow Wilson’s philosophy have become central to international politics and American foreign policy.
Classic Essays from Our Archives
The Slave Who Sued for Freedom | March 1990, Vol 41, No 2
By Jon SwanWhile the American Revolution was still being fought, Mum Bett declared that the new nation’s principle of liberty must extend to her, too. It took 80 years and a far-more-terrible war to confirm the rights that she had demanded.
Ike's Son Remembers George S. Patton Jr. | Summer 2012, Vol 62, No 2
By John D. EisenhowerThe author, who once served under General Patton and whose father, Dwight D. Eisenhower, was Patton's commanding officer, shares his memories of "Ol' Blood and Guts."
The Meaning of 1918 | Fall 2018 - World War I Special Issue, Vol 63, No 3
By John LukacsA century after the guns fell silent along the Western Front, the work they did there remains of incalculable importance to the age we inhabit and the people we are.
"The Sparck of Rebellion" | Winter 2010, Vol 59, No 4
By Douglas BrinkleyBadly disguised as Indians, a rowdy group of patriotic vandals kicked a revolution into motion.
"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.
A Few Parchment Pages Two Hundred Years Later | May/June 1987, Vol 38, No 4
By Richard B. MorrisThe framers of the Constitution were proud of what they had done but might be astonished that their words still carry so much weight. A distinguished scholar tells us how the great charter has survived and flourished.
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