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Articles with keyword "politics"

Silhouette of George Washington

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How to Be Presidential

By Edward G. Lengel

George Washington was not born a leader but he carefully made himself into one.

Asa Carter

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Self-made Man

By Kevin Mahnken

How a strident segregationist transformed into the beloved author of Little Tree.

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Gangs of Baltimore

By Martin Ford

Election season in a city controlled by nativist hoodlums.

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The King's Favorite

By Antonio Feros

The Duke of Lerma had the King's ear and, as a result, great power.

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Road to the White House, 1908 Edition

From New-York Daily Tribune, Wednesday, November 4, 1908

FOUR SHERMANS VOTE.
Vice-Presidential Candidate and Sons Go to Booth Together.

Wayne Miller

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Impertinent Questions with Wayne Miller

By Meredith Hindley

On the odd and brainy Claiborne Pell

Philip Mosely with Fred Stolling

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The Cold War’s Organization Man

By David C. Engerman

How Philip Mosely helped Soviet Studies moderate U.S. foreign policy.

G. Harold Carswell in his Tallahassee, Florida, chambers, April 1970.

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Supremely Contentious

By Meredith Hindley

The Transformation of “Advice and Consent”

Cartoonist Clifford Berryman's illustration of 1912 presidential candidates

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1912 Presidential Candidates

Cartoonist Clifford Berryman mocks the confidence level of the 1912 presidential candidates—Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and William Howard Taft—before the election.

Image of Lincoln at McClellan's camp

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Lincoln the Great

By Wilfred W. McClay

Though He Didn’t Look That Way at the Time.