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Catholics, Valentines, Anecdotes, Art and the war, Jazz, Celebrities, Prostitution, Pictorial works, World War, 1939-1945, Foreign relations, HistoryPeople
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), Esther Howland (1828-1904), George Washington (1732-1799), Albert K. Murray (1906-1992), Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945), Howard Blackburn (1858-1932)Places
United States, Saint Louis, China, Massachusetts, MissouriTimes
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Table of Contents
The FDR tapes: the story behind secret recordings made in the Oval Office during the autumn of 1940, plus transcripts of five private presidential conversations / R.J.C. Butow
The amorous art of Esther Howland: America's enterprising mistress of the valentine / Joan P. Kerr
A painter at war: the World War II combat art of Albert K. Murray
Opening China: once again, Americans are learning the delicate art of trading with the biggest market on earth. Here's how they did it the first time / Oscar V. Armstrong
The social evil ordinance: more than a century ago, the city of St. Louis enacted a well-thought-out plan to legalized vice. What went wrong? / James Wunsch
American characters: William S. Devery / Richard F. Snow
The terrible odyssey of Howard Blackburn: a survivor's account of extraordinary endurance at sea
Celebrities: the story of a magazine born eighty years too soon
Between the battles: far from home and in the face of every kind of privation, the Civil War soldier did his best to recreate the world he left behind him
A heritage preserved: memory's storehouse: the National Museum of American History / T.H. Watkins.
"The miraculous care of providence": on the 250th anniversary of his birth, a look at the series of narrow escapes that allowed George Washington to become our first president / James Thomas Flexner
Congo square: an inquiry into the origins of our greatest indigenous art: jazz / Frederick Turner
Now and then: precursors of the Moral Majority / Martin E. Marty
The ursuline outrage: in the shadow of Bunker Hill, bigots perpetrated an atrocity that showed a shocked nation that the fires of the Reformation still burned in the new world / Carmine A. Prioli
Lincoln's life preserver: in his lifelong battle with despair, the president relied on a sense of humor that was rich, self-deprecating: and surprisingly bawdy / Charles B. Strozier
Reader's album: past tents.
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"Sponsored by American Association for State & Local History [and] Society of American Historians."
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