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Professor Of The World’s Wonders
Author: Louise Hall Tharp
Everything interested Louis Agassiz, from tiny fish to gigantic glaciers, and he transmitted his enthusiasm to the students of a whole generation
Billy Mitchell In Alaska
Author: Brigadier General William Mitchell
Early in his military career, the apostle of air power blazed a trail through the wilderness, forging the last link in a telegraph line to the edge of the Bering Sea
Penn’s City: American Athens
Author: Marshall B. Davidson
From wilderness to foremost city of the colonies, and then to cosmopolitan capital of the Republic—this was Philadelphia’s first century
Account Of A Buyer Of Bargains
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The Storming of the Alamo
Author: Charles Ramsdell Jr.
None of its defenders survived, so that legends obscure their fate. But the facts do no dishonor to these beleaguered men, sworn to fight on until the end “at the peril of our lives, liberties and fortunes”
Father Of The Modern Submarine
Author: Richard K. Morris, Courtlandt Canby
Dauntless John Holland not only perfected the undersea boat but fought to get it accepted. Both achievements brought him only grief
When The Red Storm Broke
Author: William Harlan Hale
To a Russia in revolution, America sent rival groups of amateur diplomats. The calamitous results of their indecision still afflict us
Braddlock’s Alumni
Author: Robert C. Alberts
Or, a dogged attempt to assemble a most remarkable company—the famous survivors of the battle lost by a British general on the Monongahela. Everybody who was anybody was there, from George Washington to Daniel Boone. Everybody, that is, but B. Gratz Brown
The Working Ladies Of Lowell
Author: Bernard A. Weisberger
Proud and independent, the farm girls of New England helped build an industrial Eden, but its paternalistic innocence was not to last
“What A Sight It Was!”
Author: James Taylor Forrest
William Cary, traveling west on the Missouri, recorded the life and landscape of a rapidly vanishing frontier