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Canyonlands

Author: Robert L. Reynolds

In the red-rock country of southeastern Utah is a new national park, a quarter-million acres of silence, brilliant color, and vistas unmatched anywhere on Earth.

Benedict Arnold: How The Traitor Was Unmasked

Author: James Thomas Flexner

“Whom can we trust now?” cried out General Washington when he discovered his friend’s “villainous perfidy.”

Casey At The Bat

Author: Martin Gardner

The classic American baseball poem might have vanished if not for an actor's impromptu performance.

The Life And Death Of A Great Newspaper

Author: Fred C. Shapiro

Horace Greeley founded the “Trib”— and the union that eventually helped kill it. But in 125 years it knew many a shining hour.

Benedict Arnold: The Aftermath Of Treason

Author: Milton Lomask

The traitor was not destitute, but his family's life was not comfortable after the Revolutionary War.

Faces From The Past-XXII

Author: Richard M. Ketchum

Gravely ill, John C. Calhoun came to the Senate one last time to call for the South and North to part ways while still equals.

Essay: Filial Piety And The First Amendment

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Frick lawsuit threatens historians' ability to present all sides of a subject.

When The Coachman Was A Millionare

Author: Frank Kintrea

In the last quarter of the nineteenth century you could ride in a handsome coach-and-four from a fashionable hotel on Fifth Avenue to Tuxedo Park or even to Philadelphia. The fare was just three dollars, and your driver might be a Roosevelt or a Vanderbilt.

The Marianas Turkey Shoot

Author: Admiral J. J. Clark

Japanese naval air power was wrecked at the Battle of the Philippine Sea, but, says a U. S. carrier admiral who was there, our Navy missed a chance to destroy the enemy fleet and shorten the war.