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Jackson’s Fight With The ‘Money Power’

Author: Bray Hammond

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

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

Lore Of The Woodworker

Author: Eric Sloane

A Record Filled With Sunlight

Author: Allan Nevins

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

It Happens Every Four Years

Author: Roy F. Nichols

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

Zion In The Forest

Author: Roger Burlingame

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

Mr. Smith’s American Acropolis

Author: Curtis Dahl

Washington would be a capital of Egyptian pillars and Roman splendor if this hardware merchant’s grandiose plan had been adopted

Burgoyne and America's Destiny

Author: Reginald Hargreaves

Stickler for a point of honor, the General marched to defeat and helped to lose a war

Dynamic Victoria Woodhull

Author: Gerald W. Johnson

Her past was shady but her conscience was excellent, and all in all she played a big part in the emancipation of women

Varnish For The Nabobs

Author: Lucius Beebe

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