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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.

Reopened Museum Honors Women's Fight for Fairness

by Ann Morrow

Kate Mullany's former home in Troy, New York honors one of the earliest women's labor unions that sought fair pay and safe working conditions.

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.

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"

Did Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson Love Each Other? | Fall 2008, Vol 58, No 5

By Annette Gordon-Reed

To call it loaded question does not begin to do justice to the matter, given America’s tortured racial history and its haunting legacy.

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

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

Today in History

Battle of San Jacinto

Led by Sam Houston, a Texian army overwhelms a larger Mexican force at the Battle of San Jacinto near modern-day La Porte, Texas.
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John Muir born

Naturalist and environmental activist John Muir is born in Lothian, Scotland. Muir's family emigrated to Wisconsin in 1849, where he later studied botany. After suffering an injury while working as a mechanic, Muir traveled the United States and later advocated for the protection of Yosemite and Sequoia as national parks.
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