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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

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

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

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

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