American History

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American History • APRIL 2022 VOL. 57, NO. 1

Chaco Canyon Catches a Break

First U.S. Female Ornithologist

Picturing America

Recasting Robert E. Lee

Clearly Clotilda

See Cahokia Then

Pecan Tribute

TOP BID £264,000 • (around $358,525 in today’s value)

Nez Perce Payback

Contributors

Letter • Kudos—and Complaint

TALL TALE TELLER FELLER

HILL’S COUNTRY

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TROUBLED BRIDGE OVER WATER

Sisterhood at Lexington • The epochal events of April 19, 1775, were a long time gestating

Alone • Elizabeth Eckford and the battle of Central High

Alley Cats • Where the makers of the American songbook cut their tuneful teeth

Poison Pill • Virginia has been a long time recovering from its embrace of massive resistance to desegregating its schools

Hunting Antelope • Sold into slavery, plundered by pirates, rescued by a revenue cutter

FRONTIER DRAMATICS

DELIGHTFULLY DEADPAN

UNCLE SLAM WANTS YOU

REDCOATS RETHUNK

SONG TO WOODY

Mansion House 1757…