Books Buffalo Bill: Scout, Showman, Visionary (2010, by Steve Friesen) This is my biography of William Frederick “Buffalo Bill” Cody, written when I was the director of the Buffalo Bill Museum & Grave. What sets it apart is a wealth […]
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Why has this election season featured so many stories about animal cruelty? The 2024 campaign has contained many remarkable moments—the Democrats’ sudden switch from Joe Biden to Kamala Harris; the two assassination attempts on Donald Trump; the emergence of Elon
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At the end of July, shortly after Kamala Harris became the Democratic candidate for President, The Economist described her father, Donald Harris, an emeritus professor of economics at Stanford with whom she reportedly has little contact, as “a combative Marxist.”
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The horse was once as essential to Western life as the six-gun, and breaking horses was once a necessary skill, even a business for a few tough, enterprising souls. Eventually it became a competitive rodeo event in which working cowboys
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Each room on the tour now has a “reader rail” that provides historical information and context. Erin Scott / White House Each week, roughly 10,000 visitors tour the White House. However, Jill Biden wasn’t convinced they were getting enough out
By Stacy Ferguson The American Revolution was a crucible that forged timeless leaders from ordinary men. We love to read about, study, analyze, and debate about the men who were born into affluence and influence—Washington, Hancock, and Lafayette, amongst others,
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October 22, 2024 by Taylor Carr-Howard Our 2023 John R. Coleman Traveling Fellowship winner, Taylor Carr-Howard, provides an update from the field. As the 2023 recipient of the John R. Coleman Traveling Fellowship, I traveled to Morocco, France, and Tunisia
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Researchers have developed a new type of memory cell that can both store information and do high-speed, high-efficiency calculations. The memory cell enables users to run high-speed computations inside the memory array, researchers reported Oct. 23 in the journal Nature
“The First World War saw the first widespread use of propaganda to stir patriotic fervour,” note Gill Saunders and Margaret Timmers in The Poster: A Visual History. “The need to raise vast sums of money from the public purse to
“The party that [Trump] has remade in his image is not going to change overnight, no matter what happens next week.” Courtesy of Washington Week With The Atlantic November 2, 2024, 10:51 AM ET Editor’s Note: Washington Week With The
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