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Colfax Correction

Declaration Reprint Discovered

Charlottesville Removes Contested Statues

Tubman Museum Opens in Cape May

Treasures Amid Trash

Joining a Select Society

Florida Site Pinpointed

New World Tattoos

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RESTORING AMERICA’S MOJO

MAKING UP MIKE

TOWN AND COUNTRY • BAKER V. CARR 369 U.S. 186 (1962) IN A SUIT OVER INEQUITABLE APPORTIONMENT IN TENNESSEE, THE JUSTICES HELD THAT REDISTRICTING CHALLENGES, ONCE DEEMED “POLITICAL,” COULD BE HEARD IN FEDERAL COURT.

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Rock’n Roll ’n Race • A fresh look at the keystone of the Presley legend

John Jay, Abolitionist • Besides his career in statesmanship and governance, the eminent New Yorker fought bondage tooth and nail

Life on the Colorado • Steamboats made a desert river the Mississippi of the West

Quest for Glory

Rolling on a River

Servant and Savager

Going Low • Abraham Prescott built a legend making instruments that take music way down

Toymaker of Hawthorn Hill • Orville Wright never lost his capacity for finding inspiration in playthings

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BROTHERS IN LOATHING

RISING IN REVOLT

OVERTIME AT THE WORD WORKS

WHITE HOUSE WRITERS

MAN FROM MONTANA

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