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American History • DECEMBER 2021 VOL. 56, NO. 5

The Threat of Success

Freedmen’s Bureau Records for Free

A-Bomb Reporting Critique

Inca Infrastructure

Native American Student Resistance

Taps Off

Enslaved Communities Trail

TOP BID $7.68 Million

Otter Be Enough

CONTRIBUTORS

It’s Here!

VINTAGE VIOLENCE

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REIGNING MUCKRAKER

THINKING INSIDE THE BOX

DEATH’S JUDICIAL STING

TAKING HOME EC GLOBAL

Selling Yosemite • The tall tale that spawned the national park system

Zenger’s Zingers • When the Colonial Press Grew Teeth

What Was Lost • Greenwood was the heart of Black Tulsa, Oklahoma

One-Man Brand • How Harland Sanders popularized a regional dish, helped establish brand franchising, and became immortal

A Road Paved with Reds • J. Edgar Hoover’s path to a life of fighting crime began with the Palmer Raids

Anxiety-Ridden Era

IN THE ROOM, BUT NOT OF THE TRIBES

HOUSE PROUD

THE MAN WHO PEAKED TOO SOON

COMPANY MANHANDLED

SISTERS DOING IT FOR THEMSELVES

1778 & ALL THAT

Manitou Springs, Colorado’s…