American History - April 2018
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Название: American History - April 2018
Жанр: Нет
Автор: Коллектив
Год выпуска: 2018
Формат: PDF
Размер: 21 МВ
ISBN: 880550676817
Язык: Английский
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FEATURES
34 Hamilton’s Death Wish
In his zeal to achieve a kind of immortality, a
Founding Father may have done his level best to
hasten mortality. By Peter R. Henriques
42 The Power of the Pardon
A colorful and startling examination of the most
imperial perquisite afforded the nation’s presidents.
By Joseph Connor
52 Jim Crow’s Strange Career
A white song-and-dance man invented the subversive
stage character whose name became shorthand for
segregation. By Sarah Richardson
60 Field of Focus
A scholar of Southern culture is also an insightful
visual chronicler of his region. By William Ferris
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ON THE COVER: Alexander Hamilton may have rowed to
the dueling grounds at Weehawken, New Jersey, intent on
having to be hauled back across the Hudson dead.
April 2018
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: KEVKHIEV YURY/ALAMY STOCK PHOTO; COURTESY NEW
YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY; DIVISION OF MEDICINE & SCIENCE, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF
AMERICAN HISTORY, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION; FROM THE SOUTH IN COLOR: A VISUAL
JOURNAL BY WILLIAM FERRIS. COPYRIGHT ©2016 BY WILLIAM FERRIS. PUBLISHED BY
THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS. USED BY PERMISSION OF THE AUTHOR.
WWW.UNCPRESS.ORG; AP PHOTO/CHARLES TASNADI, FILE COVER: COURTESY NATIONAL
GALLERY OF ART, WASHINGTON/PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY BRIAN WALKER
DEPARTMENTS
6 Mosaic
14 Contributors
16 Interview
Author Jason Fagone brings a female
code breaker to vivid life
18 American Schemers
Dudley LeBlanc’s Louisiana joy juice
20 Déj&224; Vu
Presidents can live and die by face time
24 SCOTUS 101
Threading commercial reality into
trust-busting legislation
26 Cameo
Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, woman of parts
28 Style
A cornucopia of American images and locales
68 Reviews
72 An American Place
Diamond Island, New York, shines on