The press acts as if “higher education” = Harvard. But a more interesting and gutsier stand is being taken in the heartland ...

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A half-century of chemistry in America, 1876-1926. An historical review commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the American Chemical Society. Edited by Charles A. Browne ... Philadelphia, September ...

The biography of Hans F. Sennholz reads like a paradoxical novel—as if the protagonist had journeyed backward through the ...

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America has celebrated its big birthdays in a variety of ways over the years. At its 100th, in 1876, President Ulysses Grant launched the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia by powering up a ...

These notorious prisons located throughout the U.S. can still be visited today for those who are drawn to the macabre and ...

The exhibit, called "Washington's Headquarters and the Memory of the American Revolution," highlights the home's "pivotal ...

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In a long story headlined “Stinkpot Subterfuge,” the Deseret News attacked the AP. The paper, owned by The Church of Jesus ...

David M. Shribman Now begins the run-up to an important marker in our national life, one that will spark contemplation and controversy. The 250th anniversary of American independence — a year from ...