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Walter Isaacson on the Sentence That Created America
And the arguments that shaped the Declaration of Independence.
Shilo Brooks
51M
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: 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
The WWII Novel That Explains America
Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Jon Meacham breaks down ‘The Winds of War.’
Shilo Brooks
54M
Great Americans: The Man Who Birthed the Skyscraper
At the 1854 World’s Fair, Elisha Otis stepped into an elevator and had its rope cut, staking his life on a safety brake of his own invention. It caught…
Daniel Akst
This Week in American History: Virginia Leads the Way, All the Way
Two hundred and fifty years ago this weekend, a resolution from Richard Henry Lee of Virginia brought the debate over independence to a head.
Jonathan Horn
Niall Ferguson: AI Is the Most Dangerous Arms Race in History
The age of artificial intelligence requires the kind of strategic doctrine and arms control that stabilized the Cold War. Right now, we have neither.
Niall Ferguson
A Jewish History Heist at the British Museum. Plus. . .
Don’t ban Hasan Piker. Joseph Epstein on Sandy Koufax. ‘Low T’ Talarico and the nasty Texas Senate race. The $640,000 car no one wants. And much more.
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A Jewish History Heist at the British Museum
The British Museum just postponed a Jewish Culture Month lecture, but it’s been erasing Jewish history long before that.
Roy K. Altman
Agatha Christie and the Kidnapping That Inspired Her Greatest Mystery
Joe Nocera on the Lindbergh kidnapping, and why the world’s best-selling novelist grabs readers like nobody else.
Shilo Brooks
53M
This Week in American History: A Soldier’s Wife
As we honor those who died in our country’s service this week, we should also remember the sacrifices of their family members on the home front.
Jonathan Horn
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