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Great Americans: Alice Paul, America’s Gandhi
Her legacy of nonviolent protest brought a president to heel, rewrote the Constitution, and pointed the way for the movements of Dr. Martin Luther King…
Christopher Cox
America’s Birthday Isn’t About Trump
Trump and his critics are making the president the focus of the country’s 250th anniversary. But Americans have so much more to celebrate.
The Editors
Great Americans: The Wizard Who Created Oz
L. Frank Baum was bombastic, idly racist, and prone to drama and moods. He was also a dreamer and a compulsive showman who gave America its greatest…
Ann Bauer
Great Americans: The Tireless Innovation of Edwin Land
The founder of Polaroid was part scientist, part inventor, and part showman—the very model of the modern tech founder.
Mark Gimein
Great Americans: The Wisdom of Sandra Day O’Connor
She made herself a formidable justice in the same way she had learned to brand calves, fire a rifle, or turn a bobcat into a house pet while growing up…
Charles Lane
Walter Isaacson on the Sentence That Created America
And the arguments that shaped the Declaration of Independence.
Shilo Brooks
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Great Americans: No One Loved America Like Irving Berlin
The man who wrote ‘God Bless America’ loved his adoptive home in the way only an immigrant could. Years later, his words of gratitude echo into…
Charles Fain Lehman
Great Americans: ‘We’re Going to Take Back the Airplane’
The passengers of Flight 93 didn’t just act with courage—they gathered information, discussed, and voted before charging the cockpit. Their example…
Colleen Shogan
This Week in American History: The Greatest of Ghostwriters
Thomas Jefferson began writing the Declaration of Independence 250 years ago this week, and his finest feat was to so perfectly inhabit our collective…
Jonathan Horn
Great Americans: The Michelangelo of New York
Every stoop and fire hydrant Martin Scorsese’s camera catches is a love poem to New York City. He should know better than to make movies about anywhere…
Colin Quinn
Great Americans: Why We Can’t Quit the Kennedys
The Kennedy family was never a political dynasty; it was a flash of light brilliant enough to still be illuminating American life after six decades.
Will Rahn
Great Americans: John Steinbeck Lives with Us Still
Sixty years after his death, the novelist’s broken, striving, stubborn country looks a lot like ours.
Major Garrett
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