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Historical Era

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Title	Author	Issue
Missing at Promontory Point	Grosvenor, Edwin	Spring 2019
ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present) Local News: Going, Going... Gone	Abernathy, Penelope	Spring 2019
Gens. Eisenhower & Patton; George Washington Returns; The Iron Spine; The Ship That Wouldn't Die	Grosvenor, Edwin	Spring 2019
ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present) A Comedy of Errors at the Nobel Prize	Crittenden, Ann	Spring 2019
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877) Descendant Sues Over Slave Photos	Grosvenor, Edwin	Spring 2019
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s) What to See in Philadelphia, the Heart of American History	Grosvenor, Edwin	Spring 2019
ERA 8: The Great Depression and World War II (1929–1945) A.J. Liebling on D-Day	Gay, Timothy	Spring 2019
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877) Oliver Wendell Holmes: A Heart Touched By Fire	Collins, Ronald	Spring 2019
Remembering the "Wild West" Division in WWI	Lengel, Edward	Winter 2019
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877) The Importance of Mill Springs	Hurst, Jack	Winter 2019
ERA 1: Three Worlds Meet (Beginnings to 1620) 1619: The Year That Shaped America	Horn, James	Winter 2019
Washington Returns to Mount Vernon	Grosvenor, Edwin	Winter 2019
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877) Blackface: The Sad History of Minstrel Shows	Grosvenor, Edwin	Winter 2019
ERA 7: The Emergence of Modern America (1890–1930) Reassessing William Howard Taft	Rosen, Jeffrey	Winter 2019
ERA 8: The Great Depression and World War II (1929–1945) Agony and Triumph at Anzio	Whitlock, Flint	Winter 2019
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877) Abraham Lincoln Invents Presidents Day	Fenster, Julie	Winter 2019
On the Use of Blackface	Grosvenor, Edwin	Winter 2019
ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present) Looking Back on the Clinton Impeachment	Zeitz, Joshua	Winter 2019
ERA 7: The Emergence of Modern America (1890–1930) What Germans Said About the Americans	Grosvenor, Edwin	Fall 2018 - World War I Special Issue
ERA 7: The Emergence of Modern America (1890–1930) The Heartbreaking Loss of Lt. Quentin Roosevelt	Grosvenor, Edwin	Fall 2018 - World War I Special Issue
ERA 7: The Emergence of Modern America (1890–1930) Herbert Hoover Recalls the Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson	Hoover, Herbert	Fall 2018 - World War I Special Issue
ERA 7: The Emergence of Modern America (1890–1930) Agony of the Lost Battalion	Lengel, Edward	Fall 2018 - World War I Special Issue
ERA 7: The Emergence of Modern America (1890–1930) The Hello Girls	Grosvenor, Edwin	Fall 2018 - World War I Special Issue
ERA 7: The Emergence of Modern America (1890–1930) Belgians Deported to Slave Labor Camps	Miller, Jeffrey	Fall 2018 - World War I Special Issue
ERA 7: The Emergence of Modern America (1890–1930) The War to End All Wars	Grosvenor, Edwin	Fall 2018 - World War I Special Issue
ERA 7: The Emergence of Modern America (1890–1930) The Meaning of 1918	Lukacs, John	Fall 2018 - World War I Special Issue
ERA 7: The Emergence of Modern America (1890–1930) Jazz Delights the World	Reft, Ryan	Fall 2018 - World War I Special Issue
ERA 7: The Emergence of Modern America (1890–1930) An American Hero: Sargent York	Watson, Bruce	Fall 2018 - World War I Special Issue
ERA 7: The Emergence of Modern America (1890–1930) In Search of “Black Jack” Pershing	Smith, Gene	Fall 2018 - World War I Special Issue
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s) The Burr Conspiracy	Lewis, James	Special Issue - George Washington Prize 2018
ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present) About the Special Issue for the George Washington Book Prize	Grosvenor, Edwin	Special Issue - George Washington Prize 2018
ERA 2: Colonialism and Settlement (1585–1763) Darkness Falls on the Land of Light	Winiarski, Douglas	Special Issue - George Washington Prize 2018
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s) The Power of Objects in 18th-Century America	Van Horn, Jennifer	Special Issue - George Washington Prize 2018
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s) Patrick Henry: Champion of Liberty	Grosvenor, Edwin	Special Issue - George Washington Prize 2018
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s) Rethinking the Boston Massacre	Hinderaker, Eric	Special Issue - George Washington Prize 2018
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s) George Washington: A Life in Books	Grosvenor, Edwin	Special Issue - George Washington Prize 2018
The New Map of Empire	Edelson, Max	Special Issue - George Washington Prize 2018
ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present) American Heritage is Back!	Reynolds, Mark	Spring 2018
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's) Tears for Marjory Stoneman Douglas	Grosvenor, Edwin	Spring 2018
ERA 8: The Great Depression and World War II (1929–1945) The Strangest Army-Navy Game Ever Played?	Freeman, Sally	Spring 2018
ERA 7: The Emergence of Modern America (1890–1930) McKinley Reconsidered	Merry, Robert	Spring 2018
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877) Lincoln's Boys	Zeitz, Joshua	Spring 2018
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's) Secret Race to the Pole	Grosvenor, Edwin	Spring 2018
ERA 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900) Billy the Kid: From Outlaw to Legend	Gardner, Mark	Spring 2018
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s) How One Man Launched a Revolution	Gibson, Christine	Spring 2018
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s) Discovering the First Washington Monument	Grosvenor, Edwin	Spring 2018
ERA 7: The Emergence of Modern America (1890–1930) My Time in the Horse-Drawn Artillery	Grosvenor, Edwin	Spring 2018
ERA 8: The Great Depression and World War II (1929–1945) “No One Returns Alive”	Duffy, James	Fall 2017
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s) Monticello		Fall 2017
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s) “Impeach President Washington!”	Beschloss, Michael	Fall 2017