Archaeologists are slowly unearthing the ghastly secrets of Cahokia, an ancient city under the American heartland
By Andrew O'Hehir Aug 6, 2009
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I was a self-made stockbroker nailed by 9/11. Then I got into mortgages and it happened again!
By Cary Tennis
October 20, 2008
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Forget the Pilgrims. America's roots are older and more twisted, what Tony Horwitz calls a "primordial slime of false starts and mutations."
By Louis Bayard
May 9, 2008
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Watch the first episode of the new Salon/IFC indie film show.
September 14, 2007
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The real story of America is not about power, money or the march of armies. It is about a dream of liberty and justice and independence -- a dream that still comes true every day.
By Greil Marcus
July 4, 2006
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In his most believable novel in years, Philip Roth imagines a 1940s America where Charles Lindbergh unseats FDR and the nation descends into vicious anti-Semitism.
By Laura Miller
September 29, 2004
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A new exhibit at the Museum of the Confederacy tells of slaves who supported slavery. But if former Gov. Doug Wilder's dream comes true, the nation's first slavery museum will tell a different -- and harsher -- story.
By Louise Witt
May 27, 2003
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In a panoramic study of American racial reality, whites, blacks and Indians jostle for position from Colonial times to the present.
By Dan Cryer
December 12, 2000
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The Greatest Generation
By Non-Fiction | Random House, Inc
October 5, 2000
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Noam Chomsky -- Propaganda and Control of the Public Mind
By Noam Chomsky
October 5, 2000
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The bestselling historian serves up the stirring tale of the unsung men who built the transcontinental railroad.
By Stephen Prothero
September 5, 2000
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A sensational history recounts the face-off that altered the course of the nation.
By Katharine Whittemore
September 29, 1999
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Did the heroes of WWII really know what they were fighting for?
By Sarah Vowell
January 13, 1999
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By Andrew Leonard
November 16, 1998
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Salon lists the best biographies of the year
By Salon Magazine
November 19, 1997
Sacrificial virgins of the Mississippi
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"Nothing Like It in the World" by Stephen E. Ambrose
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