http://www.politico.com/gallery/2013/01/10-inaugural-controversies-from-history/000731-010414.html

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Elections

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Political parties were new, the losers became Vice Presidents, and negative campaigning was finding its feet in the election of 1796. Professor Jack Lynch has the history.

For the first time, a first-hand account of the raid that killed the world’s most wanted terrorist from one of the Navy SEALS who pulled the trigger. Scott Pelley interviews “Mark Owen,” a former SEAL who was in the room when Osama bin Laden died from American bullets, in an exclusive interview.

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A Brief History of the Teleprompter

How a makeshift show business memory aid became the centerpiece of modern political campaigning

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What are the key dos and don’ts the candidates should remember when campaigning for the White House?

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A new portrait of the founding father challenges the long-held perception of Thomas Jefferson as a benevolent slaveholder

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/the-triage-commander-gen-john-allen-hastily-transforming-us-mission-in-afghanistan/2012/05/12/gIQAzbttKU_story.html

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http://www.whha.org/whha_tours/citizens_soapbox/index.html

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http://www.whha.org/whha_exhibits/james_hoban/index.html

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http://www.whha.org/whha_exhibits/working_whitehouse/index.html

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http://www.whha.org/whha_shows/whitehouse_timemachine/index.htm

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http://www.whha.org/whha_tours/whitehouse_war/index.html

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http://www.whha.org/whha_exhibits/whitehouse_pets/index.html

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The recently restored Virginia estate of James Madison was home to a founding father and the ideals that shaped a nation

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A diminutive, persuasive Virginian hijacked the Constitutional Convention and forced the moderates to accept a national government with vastly expanded powers.

http://www.americanheritage.com/content/madison%E2%80%99s-radical-agenda?page=show

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The early years of our republic produced dozens of great leaders. A historian explains how men like Adams and Jefferson were selected for public office, and tells why the machinery that raised them became obsolete.

http://www.americanheritage.com/content/where-have-all-great-men-gone?page=show

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Without his brilliance at espionage the Revolution could not have been won.

http://www.americanheritage.com/content/george-washington-spymaster?page=show

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