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Newspaperman, novelist, playwright, adventurer, Richard Harding Davis was a legend in his own lifetime.

As featureless new buildings replace the old, the faces of our cities are going blank. But evocative relics of an earlier, ornate age are being rescued, to stand once more in a unique garden in Brooklyn.

Ruminations of E. L. Godkin and Charles Eliot Norton.

For over a century the colony was the feudal property of the Lords Baltimore. It turned out to be a fee of troubles.

He never packed a gun or led a posse or burned down a homesteader's hut, but in his time Henry Miller owned more land than anyone else in the West.

Maria Mitchell studied the stars, and taught her students to reach for them.

Verdicts Of History: III -- Even his abolitionist friends thought his attack on Harpers Ferry insane, but the old Kansas raider sensed that his death would ignite the nation’s conscience.