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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

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.

America: Experiment or Destiny? | June 1977, Vol 28, No 4

By Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

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

The Man of the Century | May/June 1994, Vol 45, No 3

By Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

Of all the Allied leaders, argues FDR's biographer, only Roosevelt saw clearly the shape of the new world they were fighting to create

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.

A Yankee Among The War Lords | October 1970, Vol 21, No 6

By Barbara W. Tuchman

First of the Three Parts from STILWELL THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE IN CHINA 1911-1945

Today in History

Operation Desert Storm begins

Operation Desert Storm begins in Iraq and Kuwait as coalition forces begin the aerial campaign to force Iraqi soldiers out of Kuwait. Acting in defense of United Nations Security Council Resolution 678 that demanded an Iraqi withdrawal by January 15, 1991, 34 nations began to attack Iraqi Revolutionary Guard units.
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Battle of Cowpens

General Daniel Morgan defeats the British at the Battle of Cowpens in South Carolina. A major turning point in the Southern theater, the Continental Army reclaimed South Carolina and forced the British, led by General Cornwallis, north, where he eventually met two Continental armies at Yorktown.
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First Lady Michelle Obama born

First Lady Michelle Robinson Obama is born in Chicago. A graduate of Princeton and Harvard Law School, she met Barack Obama when they were both working at Chicago law firm Sidley Austin.
Muhammad Ali born

Muhammad Ali is born Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr. in Louisville, Kentucky. One of the greatest boxers in history, Ali won the 1960 Light Heavyweight gold medal, defeated every major challenger during his career, and turned to a life of philanthropy in his retirement.
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Ben Franklin born

American patriot, inventor, and statesman Benjamin Franklin is born in Boston. Franklin, a printer by trade, helped draft the Declaration of Independence, orchestrated the Franco-American alliance during the Revolutionary War, and signed the United States Constitution.
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