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From the “Special Estimate of Funds required for the service of the Indian Department within the present fiscal year, ending 30th June, 1851,” submitted to Congress November 7th, 1850, by…

Two dreams of California

by Cecelia Holland,

Between two fires

by Harper’s Staff,

The last year

by Eavan Boland,

Mademoiselle Jenny Lind visits the Herald

by Harper’s Staff,

A northerner’s reply

by James G. Birney,

P.T. Barnum and my great-great-granddad’s slaves

by Allan Gurganus,

Neologisms

by Harper’s Staff,

Feminism’s first minutes

by Harper’s Staff,

Soldiers of the liberating expedition of Cuba!

by Narciso Lopez,

To the editor of the London Times

by Frederick Douglass,

Dispatches from 1850: a sesquicentennial symposium

by Harper’s Staff,

Introduction

by Robert Stone,

Blood on the tracks

by Mark Slouka,

Does senseless death reveal God, or His absence?

Who Will Tell the People?

by Russell Banks,

On waiting, still, for the great Creole-American novel

In the land of the rococo Marxists

by Tom Wolfe,

Why no one is celebrating the second American century

Hazards of new fortune

by Lewis H. Lapham,

Harper's Magazine, then and now

Untitled

by Lewis H. Lapham,

Untitled

by Bill Clinton,

Cold war

by Harper’s Staff,

Was my life worth living?

by Emma Goldman,

Show them the money

by Nicholas Knowles Bromell,

On winning equal rights for wealthy Americans

Licensed to kill

by Ken Silverstein,

Shadowing our government's favorite arms dealer

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Trading up

Last rites

Why marriage? Matrimony at the millennium offers solace to capitalism

American Futures, Remembered and Foretold

How the West was Lost

An expedition map

An advertisement

The Cost of Conquest

Two dreams of California

Between two fires

The last year

Mademoiselle Jenny Lind visits the Herald

A northerner’s reply

P.T. Barnum and my great-great-granddad’s slaves

Neologisms

Feminism’s first minutes

Soldiers of the liberating expedition of Cuba!

To the editor of the London Times

Dispatches from 1850: a sesquicentennial symposium

Introduction

Blood on the tracks

Who Will Tell the People?

In the land of the rococo Marxists

Hazards of new fortune

Untitled

Untitled

Cold war

Was my life worth living?

Show them the money

Licensed to kill

June 2000

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