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American History • DECEMBER 2020 VOL. 55, NO. 5

MOSAIC

CONTRIBUTORS

Letters

TALKING ALONE ABOUT WORKING TOGETHER

COLLEGIATE CONUNDRUM

CHIEF STOCK IN TRADE: SMUT

ROADWAY TO REALISM

DOLLARS AND SENSE

Explosive Election • The campaign of 1800 threatened to sunder the nation

Camp Follower • In 1777, a high-born wife takes her three youngsters to North America to find her husband, a German officer fighting under British command. What could go wrong?

Pitching In

“Your Number Came Up!” • With war in the wings, the United States began drafting men into service in 1940

Run from the Shadows • How the first modern Washington scandal enveloped James Garfield

A Credit Mobilier Primer

Splitting States • How Maine finally rode out of Massachusetts on the Missouri Compromise

MOUNTAIN MEMORIES

WINDY CITY, POLISH CITY

CONFLICTED STATES OF AMERICA

BRILLIANTLY BOGUS

CARTOGRAPHERS TO COWBOYS

Highland Park…