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The Second World War in the Lives of America&'s ChildrenLooking out a second-story window of her family&'s quarters at the Pearl Harbor naval base on December 7, 1941, eleven-year-old Jackie Smith could see not only the Rising Sun insignias on the wings of attacking Japanese bombers, but the faces of the pilots inside. Most American children on the...

"e;They called it the Reagan revolution,"e; Ronald Reagan noted in his Farewell Address. "e;Well, I&'ll accept that, but for me it always seemed more like the great rediscovery, a rediscovery of our values and our common sense."e;  Nearly two decades after that 1989 speech, debate continues to rage over just how revolutionary those...

Reminiscences of an EyewitnessThe Girondins of Chile tells of the strong influence that the European revolutions of 1848 had in Chile, and how they motivated a young Santiago society with high cultural aspirations but little political knowledge or direction. Benjamin Vicuna Mackenna, a Chilean writer and historian who lived during those days in...

Three HagiographiesRebecca J. Manring offers an illuminating study and translation of three hagiographies of Advaita Acarya, a crucial figure in the early years of the devotional Vaisnavism which originated in Bengal in the fifteenth century. Advaita Acarya was about fifty years older than the movement&'s putative founder, Caitanya, and is believed...

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