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American resistance to British authority developed with stunning speed 250 years ago in response to George III’s inflexibility. 

The young rockabilly star autographed each of our forearms.

Fifty years ago, the Equal Credit Act was an important step in affording women control of their own finances.

The Constitution is more than a legal code. It is also a framework for union and solidarity.

Classic Essays from Our Archives

Who Invented Scalping? | April 1977, Vol 28, No 3

By James Axtell

In recent years many voices—both Native-American and white—have questioned whether Indians did in fact invent scalping. What is the evidence?

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Columbus and Genocide | October 1975, Vol 26, No 6

By Edward T. Stone

The discoverer of the New World was responsible for the annihilation of the peaceful Arawak Indians

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“The Tide is Setting Strongly Against Us” | Winter 2010, Vol 59, No 4

By Edward L. Ayers

Lincoln’s bid for reelection in 1864 faced serious challenges from a popular opponent and a nation weary of war.

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The Meaning of 1918 | Fall 2018 - World War I Special Issue, Vol 63, No 3

By John Lukacs

A 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.

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The Conversion of Harry Truman | November 1991, Vol 42, No 7

By William E. Leuchtenburg

A child of the South's "Lost Cause," Truman broke with his convictions to make civil rights a concern of the national government for the first time since Reconstruction. In so doing, he changed the nation forever.

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    Today in History

  • FDR signs Executive Order 9066

    President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066, allowing the War Department to remove anyone from certain areas of the country "as deemed necessary or desirable." Japanese-Americans were affected the most, as over 100,000 Japanese-Americans, along with several thousand German and Italian-Americans were relocated and sometimes interned in military camps.

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  • Iwo Jima landings

    United States Marines begin their amphibious landings on Iwo Jima, a Japanese-controlled island 650 miles south of Tokyo. Also known as Operation Detachment, about 70,000 Marines would fight in the 35-day battle to secure Iwo Jima.

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