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Railroad in a Barn

Author: Fitzhugh Turner

Snowshed crews on the Central Pacific, battling blizzards and snowslides, built “the longest house in the world”

Myth On The Map

Author: Lou Ann Everett

Scores of towns and counties all over the nation honor some heroics largely invented by Parson Weems

The Tragedy Of King Philip And The Destruction Of The New England Indians

Author: George Howe

The most serious threat to white colonization of New England was the Indian uprising of 1675-76, known as King Philip’s War. What follows is the story of the tragic man who led that futile struggle, Philip, chief of the Wampanoags. But perhaps it is just as much the story of Philip’s erstwhile friend and resourceful pursuer, Benjamin Church. This account is taken from George Howe’s superb history of Bristol, Rhode Island, Mount Hope, due in February from the Viking Press.

T. R. Writes His Son

Author: Theodore Roosevelt

No matter how busy he was, Theodore Roosevelt always found time for his children. The charming “picture” letters below, addressed to his thirteen-year-old son Archie from a Louisiana hunting camp, recall a man who for millions of Americans will always live on, forever vigorous, forever young.

The Hawthornes In Paradise

Author: Malcolm Cowley

Nathaniel was poor and sunk in his solitude; Sophia seemed a hopeless invalid, but a late-flower love gave them at last“a perfect Eden”

The Lordly Hudson

Author: Carl Carmer

Over 350 years a mighty pageant of history has moved through the myth-haunted valley of the “Great River of the Mountains”