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Our Two Greatest Presidents

Author: Clinton Rossiter

Without doubt they were Washington, who walked carefully within the Constitution, and Lincoln, who stretched it as far as he dared

Death of a Dirigible

Author: John Toland

“Come and see the boiling cloud,” said a woman on the ground; aloft, the slender Shenandoah headed straight into the eye of the vicious squall

Pioneers In Petticoats

Author: Helena Huntington Smith

Legend says the frontier was “hell on women,” but the ladies claim they had the time of their lives

The Honest Man

Author: Peter Lyon

In a day of rampant money-making, gentle Peter Cooper was not only a reformer but successful, widely loved, and rich.

The Stanleys and their Steamer

Author: John Carlova

Teetotaling twin brothers built the most wonderful car of their era, and its day of glory may not be over yet

“Savages Never Carved These Stones”

Author: André Emmerich

Magnificent Central American ruins, overgrown by the thickening jungle, testify to a sophisticated culture already ancient when Columbus sailed

The Know-Nothing Uproar

Author: Ray Allen Billington

Maria Monk’s lurid “disclosures” and Samuel Morse’s dire warnings launched a crusade of bigotry that almost won the White House

The Colonel’s Dream Of Power

Author: Robert S. Rifkind

In a little-known novel President Wilson’s private adviser depicted a benevolent American dictator