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American History • APRIL 2022 VOL. 57, NO. 1
Chaco Canyon Catches a Break
First U.S. Female Ornithologist
Picturing America
Recasting Robert E. Lee
Clearly Clotilda
See Cahokia Then
Pecan Tribute
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Nez Perce Payback
Contributors
Letter • Kudos—and Complaint
TALL TALE TELLER FELLER
HILL’S COUNTRY
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TROUBLED BRIDGE OVER WATER
Sisterhood at Lexington • The epochal events of April 19, 1775, were a long time gestating
Alone • Elizabeth Eckford and the battle of Central High
Alley Cats • Where the makers of the American songbook cut their tuneful teeth
Poison Pill • Virginia has been a long time recovering from its embrace of massive resistance to desegregating its schools
Hunting Antelope • Sold into slavery, plundered by pirates, rescued by a revenue cutter
FRONTIER DRAMATICS
DELIGHTFULLY DEADPAN
UNCLE SLAM WANTS YOU
REDCOATS RETHUNK
SONG TO WOODY
Mansion House 1757…