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When Karl Marx Worked For Horace Greeley
Author: William Harlan Hale
The Great Rail Wreck At Revere
Author: Stewart H. Holbrook
Single-track lines run by one-track minds gave the reformers of Boston their biggest cause since abolition
Hayfoot, Strawfoot!
Author: Bruce Catton
The Civil War soldier marched to his own individualist cadence, but he was much like today’s G. I.
“I've Got This Thing Simplified”
Author: Marquis W. Childs
A private interview with F.D.R. April 7, 1944
When The Headlines Said: Charlie Schwab Breaks The Bank
Author: John A. Garraty
The Monte Carlo capers of U. S. Steel’s new president outraged Andy Carnegie but never ruffled J. P. Morgan
Pennsylvania Sunday Best
Author: J. Bennett Nolan
Itinerant primitive painters dressed up the farmers and the burghers as they hoped posterity would remember them
The Lowest Ebb
Author: C. Vann Woodward
Blamed for the misdeeds of others, President Grant left his name on America’s sorriest Administration
The Harrisons Of Berkeley Hundred
Author: Clifford Dowdey
Five successive Benjamin Harrisons created a private empire of tobacco and trade and a great Virginia plantation
La Salle And The Discovery Of The Great West
Author: Francis Parkman
The Peaceable Ambassadors
Author: Arnold Whitridge
Two adroit diplomats successfully prevented an open breach between London and Washington during the Civil War