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Is everything we know about American history wrong?: 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
Flagging America's racial divide: An infamous 1976 photo captured a violent encounter between white Bostonians and a black lawyer during an anti-busing rally. A new book explains why this image continues to haunt and define us.; By Louis Bayard Apr 28, 2008
Through a bong, darkly: A new book argues that the '60s counterculture achieved nothing of lasting importance. So why does the era continue to fascinate us?; By Gary Kamiya Apr 9, 2008
A 1930s history lesson: Protectionism on the rise, bickering about exchange rates, the debilitating costs of war -- where have we heard this story before?; Andrew Leonard Mar 17, 2008
War goes graphic: "Age of Bronze," a masterly graphic novel series about the Trojan War, is fit for the gods.; By Douglas Wolk Feb 21, 2008
America closes the book on intelligence: Our country is barely smarter than a fifth grader -- no wonder it's drowning in religious fundamentalism and political ideologues on both sides, argues Susan Jacoby.; By Laura Miller Feb 15, 2008
The big secret about secret societies: Step right up, folks, and read the one true guide to Western and Eastern esoteric societies from the Freemasons to the Rosicrucians. Relics, totems and secret handshakes revealed!; By Laura Miller Jan 28, 2008
Trapped in the grid: Like electricity, the Web is everywhere and changes everything, says Nicholas Carr. But the one thing it can't deliver is freedom.; By Scott Rosenberg Jan 24, 2008
Dirty, sexy opera: In Germany, Wagner is worshiped like a god. His scheming, squabbling descendants are another story.; By Laura Miller Jan 15, 2008
Everything you know about absinthe is wrong: Banned for a century for inspiring madness and murder, absinthe is legal again. So pour yourself a glass and get to know the real Green Fairy.; By Sarah Hepola Dec 21, 2007
America's first Me Generation: Did Emerson and the American transcendentalists transform society or merely sow the seeds of American individualism?; By Laura Miller Dec 19, 2007
War and peace and trade: A history of world trade over the last millennium in one sentence.; Andrew Leonard Dec 14, 2007
Salon Book Awards 2007: From an imaginary history of Alaskan Jews to a compelling glimpse of the CIA, we pick the 10 most pleasurable reading experiences of the year.; By Laura Miller Dec 12, 2007
The filthy, stinking truth: The messy history of cleanliness, and why our obsession with dirt may be making us sick.; By Katharine Mieszkowski Nov 30, 2007
American empire, going, going ...: Great empires were extraordinarily pluralistic, argues Amy Chua, until they frayed into xenophobia and decline. Can the U.S. steer another course?; By Andrew O'Hehir Nov 19, 2007
For the birds?: While bird-watching is more popular than ever, competitive "listers" may not see how birds live, or that their habitat is disappearing.; By Meera Subramanian Nov 16, 2007
Arthur M. Schlesinger's playbill for the American century: His personal journals unveil the glory and corruption of postwar presidents with emotional truth and power. Alas, the age of the great historian is over.; By Sidney Blumenthal Oct 18, 2007
Divine politics: In "The Stillborn God," a history of the separation of church and state, Mark Lilla urges the West to remember the religious fanaticism in its past -- or risk its return.; By Laura Miller Sep 24, 2007
The Mormons are coming: Long before Mitt Romney and "Big Love," Mormons were demonized as polygamists, prudes and vampires. But Mormonism just may be the first major world faith since Islam.; By Andrew O'Hehir Sep 20, 2007
Bush's stairway to paradise: Hoping that history will somehow vindicate him, the president has entered a phase of decadent perversity.; By Sidney Blumenthal Sep 20, 2007
America's great white hope: Whales play a romantic role in our national mythology, but they also helped transform a young colony into a world power.; By Ben Cosgrove Aug 22, 2007
Blood and bile and phlegm, oh my!: Before germ theory, humoral medicine -- based on magical thinking and ignorant of human anatomy -- dominated for 2,000 years. So why are today's doctors guided by some surprisingly similar principles?; By Andrew O'Hehir Aug 8, 2007
What was so great about Catherine?: The Russian empress remains fascinating not because she attempted sex with a horse, but for expanding her empire, squashing her enemies and acting like, well, a man.; By Laura Miller Feb 13, 2007
Herbivore vs. carnivore: Are vegetarians the moral, peace-loving, cruelty-free enemies of the meat eater? Or a bunch of kooks living in la-la land?; By Laura Miller Jan 25, 2007
Ode to joy: Barbara Ehrenreich turns away from pop sociology to explore the historical oppression of collective happiness in "Dancing in the Streets."; By Stephen Amidon Jan 22, 2007

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