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‘Twas The Nineteenth Of April In (18)75 — And The Centennial Was Coming Unstuck

Author: David B. Little

On a new bridge that arched the flood Their toes by April freezes curled, There the embattled committee stood, Beset, it seemed, by half the world.

Private Fastness: Tales Of Wild

Author: William W. Winn

CUMBERLAND ISLAND AND HOW MODERN TIMES AT LAST HAVE REACHED IT

A Michigan Boyhood

Author: Bruce Catton

SECOND OF FOUR INSTALLMENTS

A FAMOUS HISTORIAN RECALLS THE COUNTRY WHERE HE GREW UP

Boston Painters, Boston Ladies

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Its venerable Museum of Fine Arts revives an era of forgotten beauty in a very proper Bohemia

“We Are Going To Do Away With These Boys …”

Author: Pete Daniel

The black laborers on John Williams’ plantation never seemed to leave or complain. It took some digging to find out why

More Sock And Less Buskin

Author: Peter Andrews

In the hands of a rococo Yankee named Clyde Fitch, the American stage came of age with a gasp of scandalized shock

The End Of The Alabama

Author: Norman C. Delaney

Captain Semmes was spoiling for a fight—and Winslow of the U.S.S. Kearsarge was waiting for him, just off Cherbourg

The Late, Late Frontier

Author: Gerald Carson

What started as fun and games at spring roundups is now a multi-million-dollar sport called rodeo