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Three US presidents were instrumental in establishing Thanksgiving as a regular national event. On October 3 1789, George Washington declared the first federal Thanksgiving holiday. In…

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I have been writing a book about Robert Oppenheimer, the man who created the A-bob, only to fall foul of the McCarthyite atmosphere of 1954…

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On July 5, the day after the Americans celebrated the 224th anniversary of their declaration of independence, a small, excited crowd in Baltimore toppled a…

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