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Surprised and almost overwhelmed, he stubbornly refused to admit defeat. His cool conduct saved his army and his job

The “conversion” of Arthur Vandenberg, told by a former Secretary of State, his sometime adversary but also his friend

So the Bible said, but American missionaries found Hawaii a paradise where pleasure reigned, and the sense of sin was difficult to teach

Weary of his humiliating job—American pay-off man to the piratical Arab states—this bold Yankee civilian raised his own army and won our strangest foreign war

John Reed was as American as apple pie and store cheese. Yet he was one of the founders of the Communist International, and his ashes lie under the Kremlin wall

A noted newspaperman writes of his birthplace, a community in which time stood still—and then started backwards

Three times John Glover’s Marblehead fishermen saved Washington’s army; in a final battle, the “amphibious regiment” rowed him to victory across the Delaware

How far back in American history can we find the old shell game in operation? Alas, pretty far.