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Featured Articles
"I Fired The First Gun And Thus Commenced The Great Battle”
Author: S. Dana Greene
History Comes To The Plains
Author: Wallace Stegner
The old frontier began to die as the “medicine line” of the 49th Parallel was drawn
Woodrow Wilson Wouldn’t Yield
Author: Thomas A. Bailey
While Paris cheered “Voovro” the isolationist crowds back home cried "Impeach him!” and in a clash of imperious wills his dream evaporated
Great Days Of The Overland Stage
Author: W. Eugene Hollon
Opening the mail route to California, the Butterfield coaches flew across the rugged, wild Southwest in twenty-five exhausting days
A Lion In The Street
Author: John A. Garraty
How J. P. Morgan, like a “one-man Federal Reserve,” calmed the bankers and helped ease the Panic of 1907
Lost Elegance
Author: Francis Russell
Home to royal and republican governors, host to a century of great men, stately Shirley Place in Roxbury, Massachusetts, is falling into ruin
Lord of the Law
Author: Catherine Drinker Bowen
The fathers of American independence founded their case on “that wonderful Edward Coke … masterful, masterless man,” who made two English kings bow to the common law
Abby, Julia, And The Cows
Author: Elizabeth G. Speare
In two dead-game spinsters who wouldn’t be unfairly taxed, the men of Glastonbury met their match and the cause of feminism found a bovine cause célèbre
The Defeat, The Lesson, The Victory
Author: William Waller Edwards
By studying Braddock’ mistakes, Henry Bouquet outsmarted the Indians who tried the same tricks on him a few years later