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Wendell Willkie campaigning in his hometown of Elwood, Indiana, August 1940

A Very Winning Loser

The Improbable Wendell Willkie: The Businessman Who Saved the Republican Party and His Country, and Conceived a New World Order

by David Levering Lewis

November 8, 2018 issue

John James Barralet: Apotheosis of Washington, showing Lady Liberty and an Indian figure mourning as George Washington ascends to heaven, circa 1802

‘Our Father, the President’

The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation

by Colin G. Calloway

April 5, 2018 issue

Captain John Smith taken captive by the Powhatan Native Americans; color engraving from Captain Smith’s Generall Historie of Virginia, 1624

An Icy Conquest

“We are starved!” cried the sixty skeletal members of the English colony of Jamestown as provisions arrived in 1610.

A Cold Welcome: The Little Ice Age and Europe’s Encounter with North America

by Sam White

November 9, 2017 issue

Kara Walker: The Emancipation Approximation (Scene #18), 1999–2000; from the exhibition ‘Emancipating the Past: Kara Walker’s Tales of Slavery and Power—From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation' on view at the University Museum of Contemporary Art at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, through April 30, 2017

Slaves in the White House

Ties That Bound: Founding First Ladies and Slaves

by Marie Jenkins Schwartz

May 11, 2017 issue

Eleanor Roosevelt at the temporary headquarters of the United Nations, Lake Success, New York, 1946

Eleanor in War and Love

Eleanor Roosevelt, Vol. 3: The War Years and After, 1939–1962

by Blanche Wiesen Cook

Eleanor and Hick: The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady

by Susan Quinn

December 8, 2016 issue

Benedict Arnold (right) and other American officers at the Battle of Valcour Island, Lake Champlain, October 1776; detail of a drawing by Charles Randle, from Nathaniel Philbrick’s Valiant Ambition

The Revolution: Treason and Rescue

Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution

by Nathaniel Philbrick

The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783–1789

by Joseph J. Ellis

August 18, 2016 issue

The Passions of John Quincy Adams

May 21, 2015 issue

Letter

Fred Kaplan

Love and John Quincy Adams

June 4, 2015 issue

Louisa Catherine and John Quincy Adams; paintings by Charles Robert Leslie, 1816

Angry, Icy, Enlightened Adams

The complex, contradictory John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams: American Visionary

by Fred Kaplan

Louisa Catherine: The Other Mrs. Adams

by Margery M. Heffron, edited by David L. Michelmore

A Traveled First Lady: Writings of Louisa Catherine Adams

edited by Margaret A. Hogan and C. James Taylor, with a foreword by Laura Bush

June 5, 2014 issue

Letter

Jefferson Morley

The Passions of John Quincy Adams

May 21, 2015 issue

Ida Tarbell at her desk at McClure’s magazine, New York City, 1894

The TR Show

Doris Kearns Goodwin’s ‘The Bully Pulpit’

The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism

by Doris Kearns Goodwin

February 20, 2014 issue

A scene from Samuel Richardson’s novel Pamela, in which Mr. B. comes upon Pamela writing; painting by Joseph Highmore, 1744. Benjamin Franklin printed an edition of Pamela in 1742, and Jill Lepore writes that it is likely he gave a copy to his sister Jane.

The Other Franklin

Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin

by Jill Lepore

October 24, 2013 issue

Thomas Jefferson; aquatint by Michel Sokolnicki, after a portrait by Tadeusz Kosciuszko, early 1800s

When America Was Transformed

Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789–1815

by Gordon S. Wood

March 25, 2010 issue