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The Scotch-Irish

Author: James G. Leyburn

The Melting Pot: The ethnic group that blended

The Immigrant Within

Author: Bernard A. Weisberger

The Melting Pot: Its most difficult test

Japan Strikes: 1937

Author: Barbara W. Tuchman

In Part Two of her new series on General Joseph W. Stilwell, Barbara W. Tuchman describes the brutal beginnings, at the Marco Polo Bridge near Peiping, of a war we would all eventually have to fight

The Great White Father’s Little Red Indian School

Author: Daniel T. Chapman

Supporters of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School believed that complete absorption of the Indian into American society was best for everyone

Requiem For A Small Town

Author: Nancy Wood

Sopris, Colorado

When The Forty-niners Went Sixty

Author: E. M. Halliday

They had no chair lifts, and they called their skis snowshoes, but they were the fastest men alive

’Twas Was The Night Before Christmas…

Author: Robert Debs Heinl Jr.

When up on the roof there arose such a clatter That Herbert rushed out to see what was the matter

Japan Strikes: 1941

Author: William H. Honan

Sixteen years before Pearl Harbor an English naval expert uncannily prophesied in detail the war in the Pacific. Now comes evidence that the Japanese heeded his theories—but not his warnings