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The last few months have been marked by big developments on many fronts: a slowly recovering economy, a troop surge in Afghanistan, the passage of health care reform bills through both houses of Congress, and an international conference on climate change that fell short of many expectations. We talk with best-selling historians Philipp Blom and Jay Winik about what future generations will remember when they look back on the end of the century's first decade.

The Revolution won, America's Founding Fathers did not get to spend the 1790s simply setting up their new republic. Jay Winik's The Great Upheaval describes how extraordinary events at home and across the world in Russia, France, and Egypt tested the young nation and shaped our history for centuries to ...