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Ted Widmer, a consulting editor for this special issue of Globe Ideas, is the author of “Lincoln on the Verge: Thirteen Days ...

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Library houses replica Declarations of Independence, while local town hall is modeled on a colonial predecessor ...

LECH Walesa, remember him? He was the Labour union leader who succeeded in forming and leading a broad anti-Communism and ...

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Trump’s attack on the Smithsonian is bad. His reason is even worse.