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November 2015

Features

Was a mole behind the still-unexplained betrayals the CIA suffered during one of its most catastrophic years? And is he (or she) still out there?

The true motives of the star witness at the center of the Salem Witch Trials in 1692 remain one of America's greatest secrets

The nation's largest probe into the looting of Native American heritage netted an astonishing collection. Here's an exclusive first look

George Armstrong Custer's heist of a highly prized stallion – revealed here for the first time after 150 years – sheds new light on the "Boy General"

When U-2 pilot Gary Powers was shot down, cold war tensions reached new heights

Retracing America's forgotten migration – the journeys of a million African-Americans from the tobacco South to the cotton South

Edward Ball; Photographs by Wayne Lawrence

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