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Insight: ‘Forever war’ started long before Afghanistan
The era of American military intervention in the Middle East and Central Asia to support undemocratic and corrupt regimes started with Lebanon in 1958.
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Leonard Pitts: We’re still marching for what already should be ours
On the March on Washington’s anniversary, let’s channel the energy of the man who never ceased demanding that America be what America said it was.
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Commentary: How this enslaved man’s story could persuade more Black Americans to get vaccinated
Highlighting the historic role of an African man named Onesimus, who introduced the idea of inoculation in early America, offers a source of pride.
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Insight: America’s reckoning with Indian boarding schools
When coming to terms with the history of a destructive policy, the nation needs to be guided by accountability, not pity.
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This 1800s doctor’s orders were deadly
‘The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream’ re-creates the homicidal doctor’s heartless life in short, highly dramatic chapters.
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Deeds and research lead to discovery of lost historic Augusta cemetery
An abandoned city-owned cemetery found in the woods between Riverside Drive and the Kennebec River in Augusta contains graves of Civil and Revolutionary war soldiers.
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Bedside Table: New biography of famed Maine poet sparks cherished memories
“I selected ‘Cross of Snow: A Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,’ by Nicholas A. Basbanes, from the Kennebunk Free Library during the winter shutdown, not only for a Portland Press Herald write-up, but because it brought back memories of my Dad, a Longfellow scholar, born, raised and schooled in Boston, a few hundred years after […]
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Need to explain, or understand, the United States today? Read this history
‘How the South Won the Civil War’ brilliantly explains today’s news by looking at yesterday’s.
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Maine Voices: July Fourth weekend standoff should raise awareness of ‘sovereign citizen’ threat
Rise of the Moors, arrested en route to Maine, is just one of many unauthorized paramilitary entities in the U.S.