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American History • FEBRUARY 2021 VOL. 55, NO. 6

Hamilton’s History, Out of Hiding

New Hall of Fame Home

CONTRIBUTORS

Letters

CULTURE CLASH

FULL COURT PRESS

FRIEND OF THE DEVIL

EVERYBODY’S BUSINESS • MUNN V. ILLINOIS 94 U.S. 113 (1877) THE STATES MAY REGULATE THE USE OF PRIVATE PROPERTY “WHEN SUCH REGULATION BECOMES NECESSARY FOR THE PUBLIC GOOD.”

HAIR POWER

Electric Warriors • When Franklin Roosevelt and Wendell Willkie dueled over getting power to the people

Up In Flames • A disaster on Nantucket helped recast the island from whaling center to resort

Combat Yacht • After years as a plutocrat’s plaything a luxury vessel came to a violent end

Suffragette Cinema • Your Girl and Mine lobbied for women’s voting rights

Orphans of Empire • Islands at the edge of Asia attracted American settlers who dreamed of annexation

A WOMAN FOR ALL SEASONS

PLACES THAT ARE GONE

NATION OF NATIONS

PRIMUS INTER PARES

CRAFTY IS AS CRAFTY DOES

Acton, Massachusetts…