Shock to the SystemFifty years ago I was a freshman at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. I was walking across the campus
on a beautiful autumn evening and a friend of mine ran up to
me and said, “The Russians just put a rocket in orbit.”. more... |
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Remains of RevolutionIn response to a congressional directive, the National Park Service has produced a first-of-its-kind
report on some of the earliest historic military sites in the American story. Battlefields and other
properties associated with the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 were the subject of a
four-year study. more... |
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A Life on View at the President's Pennyslvania Farm Former First Lady Mamie Eisenhower once joked that she had “lived in
everything but an igloo,” for in her 53 years of marriage to Dwight D.
Eisenhower, they lived in 37 different places. But she only called one of
them, a rural Pennsylvania farmhouse, home. more... |
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The Legacy of the Space RaceIt was an indian summer evening in the Eisenhower years, stars
emerging over a nation sated by prosperity and lulled into contentment by the wholesome and familiar. Yet the decade’s can-do confidence had been tempered by an indefinable fear—bound up with science and space more... |
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Seaside Opulence In the nation's oldest city -St.
Augustine, Florida—there are a lot of historic structures, but perhaps none characterizes the place more than the former Hotel Ponce de Leon, a newly minted national historic landmark. more... |