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“Czar Reed”: The Speaker Who Broke the Filibuster
Thomas Brackett Reed rewrote the rules of Congress, crushed the filibuster, and walked away from power on principle. He died at the Arlington Hotel while a party raged downstairs.
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Uncovering History: The Stories of Abraham Lincoln and Boston Corbett
In 1914, a Massachusetts journalist published a memoir of two men he’d known: Lincoln and Boston Corbett, who shot John…
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Solving the Mystery: Where Was This 1947 Street Scene in Washington, DC?
We discovered a 1947 street scene in Washington, DC and set out to solve the mystery of where it was.…
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