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The Diamond Jubilee Of Jazz
Author: John McDonough
Seventy-five years ago this month, a not especially good band cut a record that transformed our culture
What Should We Teach Our Children About American History?
Author: Fredric Smoler
The fiercest struggle going on in education is about who owns the past. Militant multi-culturalists say that traditional history teaching has brushed out minority ethnic identities. Their opponents say that radical multiculturalism leads toward national fragmentation.
America And Russia, Americans And Russians
Author: John Lukacs
The Cold War was an anomaly: more often than not the world’s two greatest states have lived together in uneasy amity. And what now?
Groping Toward Democracy
Author: Harrison E. Salisbury
The Russians claim they want to be more like us— but do they have any idea who we are?
The First Kansas Colored
Author: Glenn L. Carle
They were the first black men to fight in the Civil War. They were the first to serve alongside whites. And they were the first to die.