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Grey concrete statue of Moses holding the tablets of the Ten Commandments, from a door at Forest Lawn Memorial Park.

America’s Embrace of the Ten Commandments

The Ten Commandments are back in the news. Nearly twenty years ago, they made headlines…

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Harriet Tubman and the Second South Carolina Volunteers Bring Freedom to the Combahee River

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The Dinner and the Dean

In March 1924 — 100 years ago this year — Charles S. Johnson approached Alain Locke about hosting a dinner party…

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A Sheaf of Papers and the Unsolved Murder of a Rising Academic

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Detectives Say: The Development of Handwriting Analysis and Expert Deduction

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American Flight 119 St. Louis to Tulsa

D.B. Cooper’s exploit over the skies of the American Northwest has inspired books, films…

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Figurine of President George Washington to illustrate the book extract “Revisiting the Critical Period before the Constitution was written” by Max M. Edling the author of “Perfecting the Union: National and State Authority in the US Constitution” (OUP)

Revisiting the Critical Period before the Constitution was written

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A close up of a 100 US dollar bill to illustrate an excerpt from “Capitalist Peace: A History of American Free-Trade Internationalism” written by Thomas W. Zeiler, published by Oxford University Press

Capitalist Peace and Depression, 1930–1935

Surprisingly, exports and imports, tariffs and quotas, and trade deficits and…

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The particulars of impeachment

January 27th marks the 50th anniversary of the Paris Peace Accords marking the ultimate US withdrawal of…

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The promise of peace and friendship in the American West

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