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Mar 3, 2017
The Resolute Desk
There’s more to this presidential piece of furniture than meets the eye.
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Cori Brosnahan, Illustrations by Tsering Yangzom
If desks could talk, the Resolute desk would have a…
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Mar 24, 2017
The World’s Experience
After fighting for democracy overseas in World War I, African American soldiers returned determined to fight for democracy at home.
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Mar 3, 2017
The Lady from Montana
On March 4, 1917, the 65th Congress convened, with one major difference: the very first congresswoman.
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Mary Walton
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Mar 21, 2017
Master of American Propaganda
How George Creel sold the Great War to America, and America to the world.
By Nicholas J. Cull
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Mar 31, 2017
When Wilson Asked for War
One hundred years ago, President Woodrow Wilson urged Congress to declare war on Germany, bringing America into the messy, tragic conflict it had long resisted. The speech he…
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Mar 30, 2017
A Woman’s War
As America entered the Great War, authorities pressured suffragists to drop their cause and join the war effort. They refused, turning President Woodrow Wilson’s hypocritical pleas for…
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