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In the rural scenes and native landscapes of William Sidney Mount a naive young America saw itself reflected to the life

—FOUR EUROPEANS VIEW THE CIVIL WAR

Dorothy Arnold’s baffling disappearance, fifty years afterward, is still unsolved

In a bold plot, a young Rhode Island officer caught the British commander of Newport in his nightshirt

Who dies rich, dies disgraced, said Andrew Carnegie. An economist re-examines his brash career in the light of that noble philosophy

Was the old South solidly for slavery and secession? An eminent historian disputes a long-cherished view of that region’s history

Salem’s irascible little “arithmetic sailor” made seamanship a science and left all mariners in his debt

Twice in one generation we kept Russia from starving; the Kremlin plays it down, but the people we fed remember—and history will not forget