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American History • DECEMBER 2019 VOL. 54, NO. 5
TEDDY ROOSEVELT SPORTED A LARGE TATTOO ON HIS CHEST THAT DEPICTED… • His famed horse ‘Little Texas,’ the Roosevelt family crest, a U.S. flag planted atop San Juan Hill or a trio of entwined mermaids?
New Statue of Liberty Museum
CONRIBUTORS
Letters
A NUANCED AND COMPLEX WAR
CARNAL CRIMES
KU KLUX CON JOB
THE POWER TO DIG
NATURAL MAN
First Blood • At Lexington and then at Concord, civil unrest became insurrection
Pattern Recognition • Andrew Jackson Downing left a broad, deep impression on American design
Women With Wings • The 1929 Powder Puff Derby showed women could hold their own in the air
Hopscotch in the Sky
Dames in Space
Watery Waymaking • For a blink, America was awash in canal-building By Richard Jensen
Towpath Tune
Canal Continuity
Not Entirely Normal Lens
PAVED WITH PROMISES
STATUE STORY
MARITIME TIMES
ROAD TRIP!
AN AMERICAN PLACE