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What does it mean to be an American? How do we define America? Some say it's an idea. Others say a place. Still more say a people. In truth, America encompasses all these components. Each plays its ...

Nearly forty years have passed since I crossed the frontier into the Soviet Union. That is now almost as much time as separated my journey from John Steinbeck's A Russian Journal, written after he ...

In The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, author Thomas Kuhn argued that science progresses through long periods of stability within a shared paradigm, punctuated by revolutions when that paradigm ...

When I joined Lehman Brothers as a new associate in August 2008, I thought I was beginning a new chapter of my life. Seven years earlier, I had reported to my first Army unit on September 11, 2001, a ...

In segregated twentieth-century Natchez, Mississippi, power wore predictable faces: white, male, and respectable, at least on paper. Yet one of the town's most influential figures fit none of those ...

On September 19, 1777, the British army captured a 12-acre agricultural clearing in Saratoga, New York. After losing nearly 600 soldiers and trading hands with the Continental Army throughout the ...

August 20 marked the 193rd birthday of an American president. Don't feel bad if you didn't know that. Benjamin Harrison is used to being forgotten. Harrison is almost comically overlooked ...

In his two most celebrated novels--Fitzpatrick's War and The Timerman--author Theodore Judson imagines a future America, the Yukon Confederacy, a feudal state of patriotic, God-fearing,

Few places have dominated the headlines in recent years like Gaza. Yet beneath the war, diplomacy and political controversy lies a history far older - and more complex - than the current ...

The Panama Canal stands as one of the most monumental engineering achievements in modern human history. Stretching approximately 50 miles across the narrow Isthmus of Panama, this artificial waterway ...