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TO WELCOME CHARLES DICKENS, NEW YORK STAGED ITS GREATEST PARTY—AND THEN SPOILED EVERYTHING BY TRYING TO REPEAT IT AT HALF-FRICE

An English observer says our party workings, patronage, sheriffs., and grand juries are museum pieces from Britain’s past

At Sumter Edmund Ruffin unwittingly pushed toward ruin the region whose agricultural economy he had revived

The daring epic of the filibusters reached a lurid climax when little William Walker captured the sovereign state of Nicaragua

The repulse of Pickett’s charge, described in a little-known account written shortly after the battle by a Union officer

First lieutenant on Brigadier General John Gibbon’s staff, at Gettysburg; later colonel of the 36th Wisconsin; killed at Cold Harbor.

John Eliot preached to the Massachusetts savages, printed the Bible in their “barbarous Linguo,” and tried to reply to their disquieting questions

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