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Popular Mechanics
November 2, 2009
Joe Pappalardo |
3 Cool Things About the World War II Museum's New Movie Pop-out hardware... Historical hyper-accuracy... Special effects delivered to your seat...   |
Financial Planning
November 1, 2009
Marion Asnes |
Bookshelf In The History of Financial Planning, Brandon and Welch describe planning as a pursuit that rapidly evolved into an intellectual and business discipline full of vitality and idealism. |
ifeminists
October 30, 2009
Wendy McElroy |
An overview of the abortion issue The debate over abortion is polarized, with the most vocal advocates for and against tending to assume extreme positions in the belief that they are enunciating a principle that allows for no compromise. |
TIME Europe
November 2, 2009
Lev Grossman |
How D-Day Almost Became a Disaster The first comprehensive history of D-day in two decades sheds new light on the cost of an immortal victory. |
Humanities
Sep/Oct 2009 |
Curio New research from scholars on the English Renaissance, Massachusetts history, German-Americans, and impressions of Moscow, Idaho. |
Humanities
Sep/Oct 2009
Amy Lifson |
California's Clan A new film chronicling four generations of the Chandler family newspaper dynasty in Southern California will be broadcast on PBS, October 5 at 9 p.m. Inventing LA airs as a prime time special |
Humanities
Sep/Oct 2009
Meredith Hindley |
Who Said It: Violins of Autumn In this edition of Who Said It?, we harvest literature and history to reap the ways the season serves as marker and metaphor for the passage of time. Here's a quiz to test your knowledge. |
Humanities
Sep/Oct 2009 |
A Conversation with Jill Lepore Lepore describes how she became the person she is today: a well-known scholar of early American history, a winner of the Bancroft Prize and the author of several distinguished books. |
Humanities
Sep/Oct 2009
Michael Adams |
What Samuel Johnson Really Did He made dictionaries matter. Samuel Johnson, poet, satirist, critic, lexicographer, and dyed-in-the-wool conservative was born in Lichfield, Staffordshire, England, on September 18, 1709. |
Humanities
Sep/Oct 2009
Meredith Hindley |
Supremely Contentious: the Transformation of "Advice and Consent" In the aftermath of the Senate hearings to consider the president's nominee to become the next U.S. Supreme Court justice, it's hard to remember that the process wasn't always like this. |
Humanities
Sep/Oct 2009
David C. Engerman |
The Cold War's Organization Man How Philip Mosely helped Soviet Studies moderate American policy |
Humanities
Sep/Oct 2009
Carl Smith |
Taming the Savage City An obscure frontier outpost in the early 1830s, Chicago grew to 4,470 residents by 1840. A mere fifty years later, it was America's second city, with a population of 1,099,850. By 1909, the count was two million. |
Humanities
Sep/Oct 2009
James Williford |
Peter Cooper's Big Ideas Born in 1791 to a poor family in New York City, Cooper went on to become one of the important shapers of what might be called American modernity and the founder of the Cooper Union |
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