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Enraged by losses from their herds a band of respectable cattle barons took the law into their own hands—and barely escaped with their lives

In Toledo a civic crusade matched the popular mayor against a famed evangelist—both with the same name

Philip II’s cédula real evoked from his overseas domains vivid picture-maps of life in Spanish America

How gnarled, upright ex-President John Quincy Adams broke the South’s gag rule in Congress and at last won popular applause

The search for perpetual motion is a tragicomedy of obsessed inventors, an eager faith, and humbug

An Englishman re-examines certain stereotyped attitudes on the American Revolution

To him, said Morse, art had been only “a cruel jilt.” Then Providence found other work for this complex, difficult Yankee