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How gnarled, upright ex-President John Quincy Adams broke the South’s gag rule in Congress and at last won popular applause

The search for perpetual motion is a tragicomedy of obsessed inventors, an eager faith, and humbug

An Englishman re-examines certain stereotyped attitudes on the American Revolution

To him, said Morse, art had been only “a cruel jilt.” Then Providence found other work for this complex, difficult Yankee

The huge, cloven-footed creature that terrorized southeast Arizona was no figment of the mind. The grisly story of its origin and fate was more macabre in fact than any fiction

A century ago this month began the war that set
These unpublished letters show how one family was bitterly split

Against a background of postwar turmoil, a 28-year-old State Department aide was sent to negotiate with the Bolshevik leaders. His rebuff by Wilson caused a national uproar