In a country constituted of immigrants and the progeny of immigrants, immigration is surprisingly thorny issue in America. It is often said …
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Crime of the century? The words conjure up thoughts of a single shocking offense, a crime so appalling it stands out above …
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Andrew Jackson was a tough customer. At the age of fourteen, while acting as a courier for the American forces in the …
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MissouriThe Midwest
Sandbagged: How a Hapless Ex-Con Got Blamed for the 1993 Flood in West Quincy, MO
For three months in the spring and summer of 1993 rain pounded the Mississippi River basin relentlessly. From Minnesota to Missouri, rivers …
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MinnesotaThe Midwest
Springtime Doesn’t Last Forever: The Rise and Fall of the Indoor Shopping Mall in Minneapolis, MN
There are innovations that, when we first experience them, are so striking, so clearly a terrific idea, that we cannot conceive of …
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Eighty-nine-year-old Marjorie Congdon has been called both a sociopath and a psychopath. The terms are not interchangeable. Sociopaths have a conscience, but …
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Traveling west from the plains of North Dakota something interesting happens as you approach Billings. The land begins to break up. The …
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IdahoThe Mountain States
Meltdown: How Two Hotheads May Have Caused America’s First Nuclear Disaster
The story goes like this. Two young enlisted men in their early twenties were tasked with operating a nuclear reactor in the …
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Skiing came to Sun Valley—as it came to all of us—by a roundabout manner. Having existed in Norway for centuries as a …
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In 1945 at the end of World War II a soldier named Bob Rodgers found himself stationed in the German province of …