<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">A leading American historian challenges the long-entrenched interpretation originated by the late Charles A. Beard</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck">All that the Adamses saw they were schooled to put down and save. The result is a collection of historical records beyond price and without peer.</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck"> Long before Lexington, James Otis’ fight for civil liberties gave heart to the rebel cause. But why did he behave so strangely as the Revolution neared? Which side was he on?</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck">When Pancho Villa sacked an American town, Pershing was ordered to find him and bring him to book. But the orders failed to say where — or how</span></p>
<p>The American system of choosing a President has not worked out badly, far as it may be from the Founding Fathers’ vision of a natural aristocracy </p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Mortally ill as his century dwindled to its close, Washington was helped to his grave by physicians who clung to typical eighteenth-century remedies. But he died as nobly as he had lived</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> A shy Yankee named Hannah Adams never thought of herself as liberated, but she was our first professional female writer.</span> </p>
<p>When one of the wealthiest men in the Colonies sided with the Patriot cause, he was called a “wretched and plundered tool of the Boston rebels.”</p>
<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">Vain, snobbish, distinctly upper-class in his libertine social habits, Gouverneur Morris nevertheless saw himself justifiably as "A Representative of America"</span></span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> An Interview With Edward L. Beach<br /><span class="typestyle"> The captain who first took a submarine around the world underwater looks at the U.S. Navy past and present and tells us what we must learn from the Falklands war</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The early years of our republic produced dozens of great leaders. A historian explains how men like Adams and Jefferson were selected for public office, and tells why the machinery that raised them became obsolete.</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck">John Adams and Thomas Jefferson stood together in America’s perilous dawn, but politics soon drove them apart. Then, in their last years, the two old enemies began a remarkable correspondence that is both testimony to the power of friendship and an eloquent summary of the dialogue that went on within the Revolutionary generation and that continues within our own.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">The<em> Declaration of Independence</em> is not what Thomas Jefferson thought it was when he wrote it, and that's why we celebrate it.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">When John Adams was elected president, and Thomas Jefferson as vice president, each came to see the other as a traitor. Out of their enmity grew our modern political system.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> A thoughtful discussion of the men who contributed the most to what is now the dominant political pattern</span> </span></p>
