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Brainwashed Wednesday, January 28th, 2009

The North Koreans were considered the masters of brainwashing techniques and they experimented with some success on American POWs in the Korean War. In 1959, …

Thursday night, Feb. 12th “Abraham Lincoln and his Lieutenants” Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

On Thursday night, February 12th, Circa Historian Bill Potter will present a program entitled “Abraham Lincoln and His Lieutenants.” The 16th President was a shrewd …

Friday night, February 6th at 7:00, Dr Lucas Morel Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

We are privileged to have Dr. Lucas Morel, Associate Professor of Politics at Washington and Lee University, currently involved in the James Madison project at …

New Books Wednesday, January 14th, 2009

The outpouring of new books on the Second World War continues unabated and, I suspect, will persist for another hundred years. Books on the American …

Passed Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

Each year at the end of December World Magazine presents a list of public figures that died that year. The editors used to title it …