In March 2016, Tim Hanley wrote about what happened when DC Comics gave Lois Lane, Superman's perennial love interest, her own comic spinoff.
In February 1934, Harold J. Laski wrote about how Roosevelt used state power to readjust the national economy.
The year you were born, S. Foster Damon wrote about how Boston became one of America's most prominent cities.
In July 2013, Brandon K. Gauthier wrote about the peace negotiations with North Korea at the end of the Korean War.
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Over the years, the moon landing has come to be lauded as the pinnacle of human achievement, although it was often derided at the time. In 1963, NASA astronauts took to The Atlantic to plead the case for landing on the moon.
In February 2000, James Fallows wrote about the time he spent at the company the previous year, designing an updated release of Microsoft Word.
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With NASA's Cassini-Huygens mission in 2005, humans landed a probe in the outer reaches of the solar system for the first time, a moment Ross Andersen called the most glorious mission in the history of planetary science.
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