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A Prarie Dream Recaptured

Author: David G. Lowe

The Utopian Swedish colony at Bishop Hill, Illinois, lasted only sixteen years. But in Olof Krans’s strange and evocative paintings it has a kind of immortality

The End Of The Iroquois

Author: Morris Bishop

Sullivan’ s meticulously planned expedition of 1779 aimed to cripple once and for all the redskin allies of King George

The Millionaire & The Midget

Author: John Brooks

South Street Seaport

Author: Robert S. Gallagher

Today a living maritime museum is taking shape on New York’s historic waterfront, where a century ago a thousand bowsprits pointed the way to commercial greatness

Big Boom In Boston

Author: Rufus Jarman

“Come immediately … Nothing like it in a lifetime!” an exalted customer telegrapheds wife after hearing the opening number of the National Peace Jubilee in 1869

Down The Colorado

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One hundred years ago John Wesley Powell set out to explore the Grand Canyon of the Colorado —something no man had attempted before. His official report of the voyage remains one of the great adventure stories in all the literature of the American West

Plain Tales From The Embassy

Author: John Kenneth Galbraith

Magellan’s Voyage

Author: Antonio Pigafetta

Another eyewitness takes us on another voyage, three and a half centuries earlier—this one around the world