<p><span class="deck"> THUS SPAKE THE GREAT INDIAN CHIEF TECUMSEH, PREDICTING— SOME BELIEVED—THE SERIES OF VIOLENT EARTHQUAKES THAT STRUCK THE MIDWEST IN THE WINTER OF 1811–12</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> “It is needless,” wrote his publisher, “to say anything of the writer of ‘Maple Leaf,’ ‘Cascades,’ ‘Sunflower’ or ‘Entertainer.’ You know him.” But this black genius died penniless and all but forgotten</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">How the colossus of the “social expression industry” always manages to say it better than you do</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Harry Truman’s lifetime correspondence with his adored Bess opens a window on their time</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck">For many children who accompanied their parents west across the continent in the 1840s and '50s, the journey was a supreme adventure.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">A small but dependable pleasure of travel is encountering such blazons of civic pride as “Welcome to the City of Cheese, Chairs, Children, and Churches!”</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">Drawn to the story of the fearsome Confederate raider by a modern act of violence, the author finds a strange epic in the rebel’s restless remains.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck"><lead_in> After three times</lead_in> traveling the trail they blazed, the author imagines what the two captains of Jefferson’s Corps of Discovery would make of the civilization we have built on the tremendous promise they offered.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">Over the question of whether Missouri should be admitted to the Union as a free or slave state in 1820, creative moderates brokered an ingenious compromise that averted civil war.</span></p>
