American History

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American History

Photo Finish

Taking Teddy Down

Wet Work

Long Way Home

Tribal Status Rethought

Preserved Paperwork

Brutal Beauty

Sun Globe

Celebrating Blackness

TOP BID Some Two Bits $12 million

Contributors

Letters

Fisher, Fun, and Fortune • Entrepreneur Carl Fisher never met a dare he wouldn’t take, a bet he couldn’t make, or a real estate deal he was unable to forsake.

Overreachers

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Pondering Privacy

Wisconsin Warrior

Franklin’s Gambit • As a diplomat, the Sage of Philadelphia was a player in more ways than one

Cold War Chronicle • Notes from a sojourn into the heart of the Soviet Union

Rehearsal for Rebellion • The Methodist Episcopal Church schism of 1844 prefigured America’s sundering

Mascot Memories • The phenomenon of the sports team mascot had theatrical, sometimes demeaning origins

Pintsize Powerhouse

Bear Wars • Ranchers on Kodiak Island didn’t take kindly to cattlechomping omnivores

Epidemics as Influencers

THE CALL OF McCALL

Twixt Ideal & Reality

Newspaper Years

Chucking It All

Halfway Backing Beard

River City