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A mosaic of anecdotes and historical snapshots surveys the sociological diversity of France, past and present.

When Franklin Delano Roosevelt was President, my father knew he had a friend in the White House. We should rekindle that spirit today.

Lapham's Quarterly makes its debut, seeking to explain the present with illuminations from the past.

Pervez Musharraf wraps himself in Lincoln's mantle, but no one is fooled.

"WHATEVER the other fellow don't do, we will." Thus refreshingly Will Rogers, the bunkless candidate for President, begins his campaign. It is, of course, a dangerous doctrine, but Mr.

In the struggle over the ownership of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, black history is on sale at bargain prices.

A look at the cantankerous dispatches he wrote as London correspondent for the New York Tribune puts the father of communism in a new light.

A historian plugs some suspicious gaps in two revisionist histories of Vietnam.

Juan Cole's Napoleon's Egypt examines the little dictator's doomed attempt to occupy an Arab country.

If the President is allowed to invoke the divine right of kings, the American Revolution will have come full circle.