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F.D.R. Vs. The Supreme Court
Author: Merlo J. Pusey
Did the President, as he claimed, lose a battle but win a war in his attempt to pack the Supreme Court? Historical perspective suggests another answer
Last Survivors Of The Revolution
Author: Rev. Elias Brewster Hillard
In the misty memories of six centenarians recorded in 1864, the great war lives again
Father Of Our Factory System
Author: Arnold Welles
Young Samuel Slater smuggled a cotton mill out of England—in his head—and helped start America’s Industrial Revolution
How The Frontier Shaped The American Character
Author: Ray Allen Billington
A distinguished historian finds that after 65 years Frederick Jackson Turner’s disputed “frontier theory” is still a valid key to understanding modern America
The Elusive Swamp Fox
Author: George F. Scheer
Around Francis Marion there has sprung up an overgrowth of legend as tangled as the swamps he fought in. Here is an authoritative account of his role in the Revolution
The Submarine That Wouldn’t Come Up
Author: Lydel Sims
The Confederates’ Hunley was the first submarine to sink an enemy warship, but her crude design made her a coffin for her crew
Music Had Charms
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Homely sentiment and crude humor—in delightful covers—helped soothe the mid-nineteenth-century breast
The Case Of The Missing Portrait
Author: Richard M. Ketchum
Thomas Jefferson paid Gilbert Stuart $100 for a portrait, then waited 21 years for delivery. A fire-blackened canvas discovered over a century later raises doubt that the original ever left the artist’s Boston studio
A Journal Of An Indian Captivity During Pontiac’s Rebellion In The Year 1763, By Mr John Rutherfurd, Afterward Captain, 42nd Highland Regiment
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“Every one of us was seized by his future master…
The Canny Cayuse
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The white man made certain his imported thoroughbred could outrun the red man’s pony, but the Indian chief was wise in the gambler’s ways