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Topic: American History (page 14)

(The White House/AP)

Our hysterical decline

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Stories don't need morals or messages

Swallowed by a whale -- a true tale?

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Rick Santorum's Manifest Destiny (Phelan Ebenehack / Reuters)

Santorum's Manifest Destiny for the Middle East

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Richard Nixon and J. Edgar Hoover (Wikipedia)

Michael Winship

Mrs. Arthur Henry Paget (Mary Fiske Stevens, 1853-1919) dressed as Cleopatra, 1891. (New-York Historical Society)

Hot chicks of the Gilded Age?

The fascinating world of fraternal prank machines

(Wikipedia/AP)

How FDR created today's Republican Party

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A member of the Occupy Wall Street movement holds a sign in Grand Army Plaza, New York. Right: Thomas Jefferson (© Shannon Stapleton / Reuters)

Mitchell Anderson - The Tyee

(Library of Congress/Salon)

(AP)

Protestors affiliated with the "Occupy Wall Street" protests wave signs and banners. At right: A rally during the Great Depression (AP/LOC)

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Group photo of E. O. Lawrence, A. H. Compton, V. Bush, J. B. Conant, K. Compton, and A. Loomis in March 1940 at UC Berkeley meeting (Wikipedia)

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(AP)

What really happened in Jonestown?

What killed James Garfield?

Meredith Hindley

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Associated Press

Images from the Postal Service's brighter days

Ron Paul hurricane plan: "We should be like 1900"

George W. Bush on vacation at his ranch in 2002.

A history of controversial presidential vacations

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