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Walter Lippmann

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The Birth of the American Foreign Correspondent

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Lessons from the History Textbook Wars of the 1920s

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Who’s Afraid of Isolationism?

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Land of Capital

The history of the United States as the history of capitalism.
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The Americans Who Embraced Mussolini

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We Had Witnessed an Exhibition

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If This Is Like 1968, Then Trump Is in Big Trouble

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The Last Time Democracy Almost Died

By examining the upheaval of the nineteen-thirties, we can recognize similarities between today and democracy's last near-death experience.

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