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Nurse Kaci Hickox is not Typhoid Mary by Heather Munro Prescott Nurse Kaci Hickox is not Typhoid Mary, but that hasn't stopped some conservative critics from calling her a "Typhoid Mary wannabe."

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LBJ's archived phone calls show a different side of power by Scott Calonico Filed under the heading: You can't always get what you want

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How photography – and phrenology – helped make Abraham Lincoln president by Joanna Cohen A virtual unknown on the national stage in 1860, Lincoln needed a public image in the run up to his first presidential campaign. Artists and print-makers all rushed in – but Lincoln was fascinated by the process of photography.

The Powerlessness of Positive Thinking by Rick Perlstein The battles over American history and censorship in Colorado are part of the longstanding cult of optimism on the Right.

America’s conspiracy mania: Why Ebola and 9/11 truthers reflect a tortured history by Jonathan Zimmerman From 9/11 to McCarthyism, we have a long history of conspiracy theories -- and government acts have encouraged them.

Behind the Wall by Amy Davidson "It’s often said that the Berlin Wall finally fell by mistake."

US Dilemma in Syria: Moderate Stronghold Falls to al-Qaeda, Fighters desert to Extremists by Juan Cole Not only did Syria Revolutionaries Front leader Jamal Marouf have to flee his hometown, but some of his fighters actually turned on him and joined the Succor Front.

Is Barack Obama the Worst President in American History? by Ivan Eland With America’s ahistorical orientation and restrictive two-party political system, people on the right of the American political spectrum reflexively and viscerally believe that the current left-of-center president is the worst in history; left-leaning people had the same opinion of George W. Bush.

How One Soviet Submarine Commander Averted World War III by Jennifer Ginsburg For the torpedo to be launched, the submarine’s top three commanders had to agree, and one refused.

Fifteen Ways Nelson Rockefeller Still Matters by Jonathan A. Knee The sheer magnitude of Rockefeller’s ambition across the domains of business, government and philanthropy and the unselfconscious ease with which he moved among these worlds stand in stark contrast with what would be even conceivable today.

Yitzhak Rabin’s legacy reconsidered by Moshe Dann Rabin’s legacy was the “Oslo process” which shifted national momentum from Zionism and Jewish sovereignty to Palestinianism and the “two state” delusion.

Didn’t Everybody Love Reagan? by Lloyd Green "Reagan led America along a path it was willing to try and to take."

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Secessionist Movements In America Refuse To Die Of course none of the movements are even close to convincing Washington to let them hold a Scottish-like referendum.

A Civil War soldier is getting the Medal of Honor A 94-year-old woman is responsible.

What 2014 Elections Can Tell Us About the 2016 Ones: Not So Much Historically, midterm results, which are typically unfavorable to the president’s party, tell us relatively little about the coming presidential election.

25 years after fall of the Berlin Wall, divisions in Germany remain 6 in 10 Germans were in favour of looking ahead rather than reflecting on German Democratic Republic history

The Fourth Man: Who Prompted the Fall of the Berlin Wall? We can now reveal whodunit.

6 IN 10 Americans remember where they were when the Berlin Wall fell Berlin Wall’s fall marked the end of the Cold War for the American public

There Are 100 Women in Congress for the First Time Ever The gender breakdown of the next Congress is still to be determined, but a major milestone was reached Tuesday night: For the first time in American history, the number of women sitting in Congress will hit triple digits.

How The 2014 Midterm Elections Made History The GOP made much history, electing younger, more diverse candidates to a legislative body that has historically been dominated by older, white men.

New Study Shows that Chimpanzees Evolved to be Violent A new study of the pattern of intergroup aggression in chimpanzees and pygmy chimpanzees (bonobos), their close relatives, finds that human impact isn't the culprit.

For Swiss, a Distasteful Jolt With Coffee: Hitler Creamer Migros, a Swiss retail giant, said it did not know exactly how the image came to be on the label.