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“Now Defend Yourself, You Damned Rascal!”

Author: Elbert B. Smith

Andrew Jackson challenged Thomas Hart Benton in a bloody frontier brawl, but they later formed a political team which left its mark on America.

The Charleston Tradition

Author: Anthony Harrigan

In the Low Country of South Carolina, English and Huguenot planters raised up a prosperous American city-state with a high culture and a lasting charm.

“… Especially Pretty Alice.”

Author: Henry F. Pringle

During their courtship exuberant young Theodore Roosevelt puzzled the delicate Alice Lee, but they had three idyllic years of marriage before tragedy separated them.

Henry Ford And His Peace Ship

Author: Frank Ernest Hill, Allan Nevins

American Heritage Book Selection -- Ford: Expansion and Challenge, 1915-1933

The Farmington Canal

Author: Eric Sloane

The hand-dug waterway is mostly forgotten now, but it opened up areas of New England as well as imaginations.

Lincoln’s Second Inauguration

Author: Philip Van Doren Stern

“The President came forward and the sun burst through the clouds.”

Pandemonium At Promontory

Author: Lucius Beebe

The official painting is full of dignity and decorum lamentably absent in the actual photograph.

Funston Captures Aguinaldo

Author: William F. Zornow

In the wily, elusive leader of the Philippine Insurrection a bedeviled Uncle Sam almost met his match.

Classmates Divided

Author: Mary Elizabeth Sergent

On the eve of the Civil War differing loyalties sent some West Pointers north, others south, but their academy friendship survived the conflict.