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SECOND OF FOUR INSTALLMENTS

A FAMOUS HISTORIAN RECALLS THE COUNTRY WHERE HE GREW UP

Its venerable Museum of Fine Arts revives an era of forgotten beauty in a very proper Bohemia

The black laborers on John Williams’ plantation never seemed to leave or complain. It took some digging to find out why

In the hands of a rococo Yankee named Clyde Fitch, the American stage came of age with a gasp of scandalized shock

Captain Semmes was spoiling for a fight—and Winslow of the U.S.S. Kearsarge was waiting for him, just off Cherbourg

When British dragoons captured this brilliant and ambitious general, it put an end to his ambition to replace Washington as commander-in-chief.

What started as fun and games at spring roundups is now a multi-million-dollar sport called rodeo

We have come a long way from the philosophy of the Enlightenment...a shift that represents a retreat rather than an advance, argues the noted historian.

AMERICAN DESIGN II THEY COMBINED BEAUTY AND UTILITY IN ORDINARY OBJECTS