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Americans to Celebrate
Americans to Celebrate: The Prophet of the Atomic Age
John von Neumann, the Hungarian immigrant who invented game theory and shaped America’s nuclear strategy, also believed the technologies he developed…
November 24, 2025
Jordan Ellenberg
Americans to Celebrate: The Man Who Put the World in a Box
How a North Carolina trucker trying to control costs became—with a little boost from the Pentagon—the father of globalization.
October 15, 2025
Marc Levinson
Americans to Celebrate: Before RBG, There Was Myra Bradwell
When Illinois’s highest court said female lawyers would distract men in the courtroom, one woman made it her mission to prove it wrong—and laid the…
September 22, 2025
Doriane Lambelet Coleman
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