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The following article is from the book Uncle John'...  ...a cop and even volunteered for the FBI. In World War II, he became a decorated bomber pilot who compl...  ...o completed 89 missions in the Pacific. After the war , Captain Roddenberry was piloting a Pan Am passe...  ...without informing NBC: He added...

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The following article is from the book Uncle John'...  ...ale and under 30- who traveled on busses into the American South to protest racial inequality and violence....  ...even though nearly 100 years had passed since the Civil War , the South was still a stronghold of prejudi...

When I was a youngster in Kentucky, I occasionally...  ...held the title of "Sin City." It started with the Civil War and a lucrative prostitution trade. During Prohib...  ...ct a new sheriff, and they chose a clean-cut, all- American former NFL player from nearby Cincinnati na...

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The new country known as the United States of Amer...  ...as a term of disrespect, but like Yankee Doodle, Americans took a stereotype and shook it back at those who...  ...more sinister one. Winifred Morgan, author of An American Icon: Brother Jonathan and American Identity se...

When the Civil War began, Americans starting hoarding coins, as the metals they were...