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New York’s First Black Firefighters

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WCAG HeadingBy Ginger Adams Otis WCAG HeadingBlack Firefighters It’s no secret that FDNY firefighters are among…
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Joe Kennedy Jr.: Fallen Hero of Operation Aphrodite

Joe Kennedy Jr. - Operation Aphrodite
WCAG HeadingBy Alan Axelrod Winston Churchill titled a chapter of his monumental history of World War…
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The Global Reserve Currency: Despite Problems The Dollar Still Rules

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WCAG HeadingBy Milton Ezrati The dollar is back. After no end of death sentences issued over…
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Split Season: Baseball’s Epic Strike of 1981

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WCAG Heading by Jeff Katz Those who think Major League Baseball is simply about the play…
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Who Really was America’s First Flying Ace: The Case for Eddie Rickenbacker

Eddie Rickenbacker Enduring
WCAG Heading by John F. Ross In Spring of 1918, during World War I, two American…
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The Game Must Go On: The Great Days of Baseball During WWII

Hank Greenberg- The Game Must Go on
WCAG Headingby John Klima The war years have often been characterized as a void in time…
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100 Years of Orson Welles

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AFI president George Stevens Jr., uttered the following words when he introduced Orson Welles on the…
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First Over There: America’s First Battle of World War One

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Wcag Heading by Matthew Davenport In the early morning sunshine of the fourth spring of World…
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Grammar Versus Slang: An American Tradition

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WCAG Heading by Rosemarie Ostler It only takes a quick surf around the internet to see…
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Infamy by Richard Reeves: A Q&A With The Author

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WCAG Heading The History Reader – Infamy by Richard Reeves Infamy is the latest work by…
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Featured Excerpt: Once There Was a Town

Lillian Chanales, portrait of author's grandmother pictured in mourning attire after husband's death.

by Jane Ziegelman

Described as an "animated tapestry" by The Wall Street Journal, Jane Ziegelman's Once…
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