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2006

Stories Published in this Year

Reading America’s Most Famous Speech

The Buyable Past | November/December 2006 (Volume: 57, Issue: 6)

George Nelson Clocks

How Mount Vernon Rebuilt The First President

Reginald Fessenden made the first radio broadcast in 1906 employing principles still in use today.

Combat Artist | November/December 2006 (Volume: 57, Issue: 6)

America’s Patrick O’Brian isn’t a writer; he’s a painter

Lionel | November/December 2006 (Volume: 57, Issue: 6)

For generations the name was as closely associated with Christmas as Santa Claus

A roster of the company’s most desirable products

What happened when an anti—Vietnam War activist met his new client—Lyndon Johnson

Politics And Poker | November/December 2006 (Volume: 57, Issue: 6)

What one game of cards tells us about two famous statesmen

How the U. S. military reinvented itself after Vietnam.

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