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In a new book, Smithsonian curator Jon Grinspan examines the history of America’s furious and fractious politics Jon Grinspan - Curator, political history, National Museum of American History ...

The program for the National American Woman Suffrage Association procession in the capital city. This march occurred before the rift between the more moderate NAWSA and the less conciliatory National ...

A bitter election. Social unrest and violence at home and abroad that seem to augur ruinous times. A gaping political divide fed in part by new technology and ways to communicate. Sound familiar?

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Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich says that for Mormon women living in 19th century Utah, "plural marriages" were empowering in complicated ways. This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry ...

This piece, which is adapted from the book Dressing Up: The Women Who Influenced French Fashion (MIT Press), was originally published by the MIT Press Reader and has been republished here with ...

RHINEBECK — One man’s cluttered attic is another man’s “missing link” to a community’s history. That first man is Jeff Strong, 82. He’s the grandson of Jacob H. Strong, who, in 1907, bought the ...