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Did Castro OK The Kennedy Assassination? | Winter 2009, Vol 58, No 6
Incriminating new evidence has come to light in KGB files and the authors' interviews of former Cuban intelligence officers that indicates Fidel Castro probably knew in advance of Oswald's intent to kill JFK.
Did Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson Love Each Other? | Fall 2008, Vol 58, No 5
A historian tackles one of American history’s thorniest questions
15 Classic Books About Black History | July/August 2020, Vol 65, No 4
From The Souls of Black Folk to The New Jim Crow, these texts are essential for anyone trying to understand the black experience in America.
Beer and America | June/July 2002, Vol 53, No 3
It came over with the Mayflower and stayed on to be the unchallenged drink of democracy.
Sputnik | October 1997, Vol 48, No 6
SIXTY YEARS AGO THIS MONTH the Soviet Union orbited a “man-made moon” whose derisive chirp persuaded Americans they’d already lost a race that had barely begun