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February 2009
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Lincoln's Contested Legacy
Great Emancipator or unreconstructed racist? Defender of civil liberties or subverter of the Constitution? Each generation evokes a different Lincoln. But who was he?
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What Darwin Didn't Know
Today's scientists marvel that the 19th-century naturalist's grand vision of evolution is still the key to life
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Twin Peaks
Their shared birth date is an intriguing coincidence, but what truly unites Darwin and Lincoln is how they shaped the modern world
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Up Close at Carnival
What's really behind the raucous pre-lenten rite? An intrepid scholar hits the streets of Trinidad to find out
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Running the Bar
Braving storms with 20-foot seas, an elite group of ship pilots steers through one of the world's most treacherous waterways—the mouth of the Columbia River
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The Freedom Riders
Fighting racial segregation at bus depots in the south nearly half a century ago, they were insulted, beaten and arrested. A new book catches up with them down the road
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Howling Success
Wolves are flourishing again in the northern Rockies. Yet even as they're helping restore the balance of nature, they're also killing livestock—and reigniting a fierce controversy
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Special Delivery
It took three generations to produce Wayne F. Miller's photograph of his newborn son
Bodies of Evidence
Excavations at a cemetery in Thailand reveal a 4,000-year-old indigenous culture
Washed Ashore
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author delights in the island town's off-season
Evolution and Equality
What did Darwin, Lincoln and the Freedom Riders have in common?
Wild Things: Life as We Know It
Honeyeater birds, sea slugs, tree frogs, and more
Thinking Ahead
In 1925, 10-year-old Orrin Nash gave all he could to help the Smithsonian