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November 2018
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American Rhapsody
70 classical musicians. 200 acres of windblown prairie. And the bracing spirit of the heartland. A Kansas symphony in six movements
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Dream Weavers
Kyle Meyer’s innovative photo-tapestries give voice to a silenced community
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The Unforgotten
Two newly translated diaries by young women murdered in the Holocaust cry out to us about the evils of the past and the dangers of the present
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Rescuing History
How an astonishing Holocaust diary, hidden from the world for 70 years, resurfaced in America
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Hear, O Israel, Save Us
An 18-year-old girl, imprisoned by Nazis in the doomed Polish city of Przemysl, kept a secret journal until her last days. Smithsonian has translated it into English and publishes it here for the first time
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Becoming Anne Frank
Why did we turn an isolated teenage girl into the world’s most famous Holocaust victim?
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Finding Her Voice
The discovery of a young Jewish poet and her Holocaust diary provokes soul-searching in Lithuania
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World, Wake Up!
Young people caught in the crossfire of history provide fearless accounts of the horrors of war—and shatter our complacency in real time
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Discussion
Readers respond to our October 2018 issue
Political Animal
After years of fierce debate, the West’s greatest symbol will again roam the Plains
Churchill Disses America
Our exclusive first look at the diaries of King George VI reveals Winston Churchill’s secret hostility to the United States
Going With the Grain
It took thousands of years, but America’s founding farmers developed the grain that would fuel civilizations—and still does
The Gilded Age’s #MeToo Moment
In Bringing Down the Colonel Patricia Miller investigates a sensational sex trial
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