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Strike! Baseball's Labor Wars • How the gilded age’s team owners played dirty to stop players’ unions.

American History • AUTUMN 2023 VOL. 58, NO. 3

From Sea to Shining Sea

Worth a Move? Own Your Own Lighthouse

Military Funeral

‘Let Freedom Ring’

Submerged Surprise

What is It? • What was this device, often found in 18th- and 19th-century American homes, used for?

Soul Food

Picture Perfect

Copy That

TOP BID Bounty Hunter $10,000

Dots and Dashes

Subscribe Now! • CHOOSE FROM NINE AWARD-WINNING TITLES

Boston Baked Bunco Artist

Arresting Politicians

Blueprint for Reconstruction • The Sea Islands set the example. But few places followed it

Company Town No. 1

HOW DID BUZZ ALDRIN FIRST DESCRIBE THE LUNAR LANDSCAPE? • A majestic forbidding land, a very dark desert, magnificent desolation, or a really groovy place?

An Alien Environment

‘Death in the Afternoon’ • Green and mysterious, absinthe caused controversy wherever it was poured

How Do You Drink Absinthe? • (Ask Hemingway)

‘Collections of Human Bones' • The “sage of Monticello” dug up an Indian burial mound

Black Broadway • African American theater performers turned stereotypes into star billing in “White” shows

Hot Air • Daring young men in fragile flying machines created a nationwide sensation

The Jungle

A Klansman’s Horrific Reign

A ROAD TRIP LIKE NO OTHER! • BATTLEFIELDS, FORTS AND A WILD BOAR

Cultural Exchange