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2006

Stories Published in this Year

Reading America’s Most Famous Speech

The Buyable Past | November/December 2006 (Volume: 57, Issue: 6)

George Nelson Clocks

How Mount Vernon Rebuilt The First President

Reginald Fessenden made the first radio broadcast in 1906 employing principles still in use today.

Combat Artist | November/December 2006 (Volume: 57, Issue: 6)

America’s Patrick O’Brian isn’t a writer; he’s a painter

Lionel | November/December 2006 (Volume: 57, Issue: 6)

For generations the name was as closely associated with Christmas as Santa Claus

A roster of the company’s most desirable products

What happened when an anti—Vietnam War activist met his new client—Lyndon Johnson

What one game of cards tells us about two famous statesmen

How the U. S. military reinvented itself after Vietnam.

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