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How the Vietnam War Accelerated Generational Divides in America

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How the Folkloric Sounds of Rural America Reached the Mainstream

How the Folkloric Sounds of Rural America Reached the Mainstream

John Szwed on Harry Everett Smith and the Making of The Anthology of American Folk Music

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The Female Journalist Who Helped Create the Field of Science Reporting

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The Battle to Fulfill the Racial Promise of Shaker Heights

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Laura Meckler on Belonging, Interracial Adoption, and the "American dream town" in Ohio

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How the Start of World War I Changed an American Heiress's Life Forever

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