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The Great Crash of 1929 profoundly disrupted the United States' confident march toward becoming the world's superpower. The breakneck growth of 1920s Americ...

The heroes and villains, triumphs and disasters of English history are instantly familiar—from the Norman Conquest to Henry VIII, Queen Victoria to the t...

The 60 Minutes Commentator Brings Together His Greatest Pieces Of Writing Spanning A Half-century. I. The Beginnings Of A Writing Life. Drafted -- Meeting M...

The Former World Chess Champion Who Played, And Lost, Against Deep Blue, A Supercomputer, In 1997 Discusses Why He Thinks Humans Should Embrace The Competit...

A Creative And Fun Smorgasbord Of Economics Through The Lens Of Food From One Of Today's Foremost Thinkers What Can The Anchovy Tell Us About Industrializat...

From The Publisher: Food, Inc. Is Guaranteed To Shake Up Our Perceptions Of What We Eat. This Powerful Documentary Deconstructing The Corporate Food Industr...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt Stands Astride American History Like A Colossus, Having Pulled The Nation Out Of The Great Depression And Led It To Victory In The...

From the late 1940s to the mid-1970s, Nixon was a polarizing figure in American politics, admired for his intelligence, savvy, and strategic skill, and revi...

With the incisive pen of a newspaperman and the compassionate soul of a poet, Mike Royko was a Chicago institution who became, in Jimmy Breslin's words, "th...

Hewlett-packard Is An American Icon, The Largest Information Technology Company In The World. The Bedrock Of Silicon Valley, It Employs More Than 300,000 Pe...

During a pivotal few months in the middle of the First World War all sides-Germany, Britain, and America-believed the war could be concluded. Peace at the ...

At the heart of the story of America’s wars are our 'citizen soldiers'-those hometown heroes who fought and sacrificed from Bunker Hill at Charlestown ...

The greatest threat to privacy today is not the NSA, but good-old American companies. Internet giants, leading retailers, and other firms are voraciously ga...