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Walter Isaacson’s new book highlights the Declaration of Independence’s famous second sentence: “We hold these truths to be ...

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The last Lincoln penny was recently struck at the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia. Its removal from circulation marks just one of ...

For 90 years, a U.S. Supreme Court decision centered on the disputed firing of a Hoosier-born Federal Trade Commission member ...

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