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America's immigration story actually starts in the darkness of prehistory. Archaeologists estimate that Paleo-Indians began their great trek from Asia around 30,000 B.C., in pursuit of shaggy, straight-horned bison (now extinct) and other edible fauna. They gradually moved south and east from Alaska as the glaciers of the Ice Age melted. By 19,000 B.C., the Indians -- a short, hardy people who suffered from arthritis and poor teeth, among other infirmities -- had built primitive homes in cliffs along Cross Creek, a few miles from present-day Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. One tribal nation, the Cahokia federation...
...most salient fact about American history is this: the ancestors of everyone who lives in the U.S. originally came from somewhere else. That includes even the Inuits and other Native Americans, whose forebears first crossed from Siberia to Alaska on a land bridge that now lies beneath the icy Bering Sea. From its colonial beginnings, the history of America has largely been the story of how immigrants from the Old World conquered the New. As the historian Carl Wittke noted, eight nationalities were represented on Columbus' first voyage to a continent that eventually received its name from a German mapmaker...
Senators like Ted Stevens of Alaska claim to follow in this tradition. "An armed citizenry," he recently said in The New York Times, "is not going to become an oppressed citizenry." The National Rifle Association constantly employs this rhetoric when it fights restrictions on access to weapons. Stevens' Patrick Henryesque oratory is appealing, but are government agents today so threatening that we need Uzis to fend them...
...Star and Tribune. (His most notable scoop: meeting and marrying Stephanie Brown, one of the paper's star reporters; they have three children.) After joining TIME in 1963, his debut assignments included covering the Kennedy assassination and the Beatles' first U.S. tour. From there, Porterfield moved on to the Alaska earthquake in March 1964 -- arriving with an unlined raincoat and $100 hastily withdrawn from the wire-room cashbox...
...almost as soon as she came, Marius soured on Wesel. And despite the student evaluations, she was not rehired for the following year, and returned to teaching school in Homer, Alaska...