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For decades the private railroad car was the great symbol of wealth. Here is what it looked like in its heyday.

A southern woman’s memoir of a by-gone era

Along the Mississippi the spirit of vanished culture lingers in the ruined columns of the great plantations

Modern G. I.’s will recognize a fellow spirit in the sergeant who wrote this account of life in General Washington’s army

The third in a series on TIMES OF TRIAL IN AMERICAN STATECRAFT 

Old Hickory's attack on Biddle's bank had some unexpected consequences

John Charles Frémont never succeeded in living up to his fame, yet he was one of America’s great explorers

The political convention was devised to meet an unforeseen need, and now and then it has an unexpected result

Roger Williams liked Indians and almost everyone else, and he founded a colony that gave our freedom a broader horizon