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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.”
The Social Structure Of Early Massachusetts
Author: Gilman M. Ostrander
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.