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1999

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1799 Two Hundred Years Ago | December 1999 (Volume: 50, Issue: 8)

The Death of Washington

1899 One Hundred Years Ago | December 1999 (Volume: 50, Issue: 8)

When Does a Century Start?

1949 Fifty Years Ago | December 1999 (Volume: 50, Issue: 8)

The Red Scare

When the Japanese government vehicle came to a stop, I saw an elderly and frail-looking man in the back seat. It was Emperor Hirohito.

Why were twenty wounded American soldiers released on Thanksgiving in 1950, days before the Chinese attacked in Korea?

The Image Of The Century | December 1999 (Volume: 50, Issue: 8)

It’s one in a billion

Rebellion in New Hampshire

“Our Big Time” | November 1999 (Volume: 50, Issue: 7)

THE FILMMAKER, who has just finished a documentary on Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, believes what the two women achieved was nothing less than the largest social transformation in American history

One of America’s greatest documentary filmmakers takes on America’s greatest city: Ric Burns discusses his new PBS series, New York

People Of Prgress | November 1999 (Volume: 50, Issue: 7)

The artist EDWARD SOREL updates for our century a classic view of Americans who changed the world

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