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X-Raying the Constitutional Convention

Underground Railroad House

$50K for Rare Copy of Paine’s American Crisis

Taino Talk

Railroads Spread 1874 Opposition to Alcohol

Gerry’s Memorial

Fort Negley’s Fate Decided

Lawrence's Last

CONTRIBUTORS

Letters

BRADDOCK’S BEQUEST

FULL COURT PRESS

A SEMPLE CASE OF EVANGELISM

BANKING ON CENTRALIZATION

IN THE REALM OF THE CENSUS

STYLE • The Rockefeller family auctions art, and we’re there; we look into a new Julius Shulman book; visit the Art Institute of Chicago; and glamp it up by Mount Rushmore.

Dying Like a Star • Marilyn Monroe’s life and death previewed the opioid epidemic

Finding His Calling • Inventor Martin Cooper made his vision for a cellphone a reality—and changed the world. An exclusive interview.

Saving Olana • Artist Frederic Church’s best-known work may be a Hudson River mansion that almost didn’t survive

The Best Kind of Cultural Collision • The border between Texas and Mexico couldn’t keep music from flowing both ways

UP ON BROADWAY

FOUNDERS’ FUNDAMENTALS

AN AMERICAN PLACES