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“Killers of the Flower Moon” and a Hundred Years of Healing

My grandparents were murdered during the Osage Reign of Terror. It took my family generations to recover.

“I will leave this house only if I am dead,” the prominent New York doctor told his ex-wife, who was seeking half the value of their Manhattan townhouse in a divorce.

Dickey Chapelle in the Fight

by Lorissa Rinehart

The award-winning photojournalist broke gender barriers and was the first American female reporter killed in combat in Vietnam.

John Muir Fights to Save Yosemite

by Dean King

Muir struggled for decades to create and protect Yosemite National Park, and helped launch the American environmental movement.

Classic Essays from Our Archives

Ike's Son Remembers George S. Patton Jr. | Summer 2012, Vol 62, No 2

By John D. Eisenhower

The 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"

How My Father and President Kennedy Saved The World | October 2002, Vol 53, No 5

By Sergei Khrushchev

The Cuban Missile Crisis as seen from the Kremlin

1619: The Year That Shaped America | Winter 2019, Vol 64, No 1

By James Horn

Four hundred years ago this year, two momentous events happened in Britain’s fledgling colony in Virginia: the New World’s first democratic assembly convened, and an English privateer brought kidnapped Africans to sell as slaves. Such were the conflicted origins of modern America.

Herbert Hoover Describes the Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson | June 1958, Vol 9, No 4

By Herbert Hoover

The great tragedy of the twenty-eighth President as witnessed by his loyal lieutenant, the thirty-first.

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.

Did Castro OK The Kennedy Assassination? | Winter 2009, Vol 58, No 6

By Gus Russo

Incriminating new evidence has come to light in KGB files and the authors' interviews of former Cuban intelligence officers that indicates Fidel Castro probably knew in advance of Oswald's intent to kill JFK.

Today in History

Black Panthers founded

Huey Newton and Bobby Seale form the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California.
John Galbraith born

Canadian-American economist and diplomat John Kenneth Galbraith is born in Iona Station, Ontario. A proponent of Keynesian economics, Galbraith served in the Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, and Johnson administrations, taught at Harvard University for many years, and published a noteworthy trilogy on economic theory: American Capitalism, The Affluent Society, and The New Industrial State.
Justice Clarence Thomas confirmed

The Senate confirms Clarence Thomas as the second African-American Associate Justice on the Supreme Court.