Conventional wisdom holds that television was a co-conspirator in the repressions of Cold War America, that it was a facilitator to the blacklist and handmaiden to McCarthyism. But Thomas Doherty argues that, through the influence of television, America actually became a more open and...

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FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF JOHN ADAMS On May 15th, 2003 David McCullough presented The Course of Human Events as The 2003 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities in Washington, DC. The Jefferson Lecture...

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THE SHOCKING TRUE STORY OF A BRUTAL ACT OF HATE"At 3:37 in the morning of Sunday, Oct. 12, 1958, a bundle of dynamite blew out the side wall of the Temple, Atlanta's oldest and richest synagogue. The devastation to the building was vast--but even greater were...

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1955. California, a postwar dream. One day, walking home from school, Stephanie Bryan, a 14-year-old from Berkeley, vanishes. Three months litter her personal belongings are found in the basement of Burton Abbott, a lanky 27-year-old student who lives nearby.Harry Farrell's taut narrative hones in on the charismatic egoist...

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In October 1871, a simmering, small-scale turf war involving three Chinese gangs exploded into a riot that engulfed the small but growing town of Los Angeles. A large mob of white Angelenos,...

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