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Humiliation and Triumph

Author: Walter Lord

The year was 1814, and within three weeks our “young and not always wise” nation suffered acute shame and astonishing victory

Utopia By The Lake

Author: Jeffrey Simpson

Exit Lines

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Viking America: A New Theory

Author: Gerard L. Alexander

Was Columbus motivated by Norse discoveries, concealed over the centuries in misinterpreted maps?

Local History Makes Good-sometimes

Author: Walter Muir Whitehill

A Cycle Of Cathay

Author: James C. Thomson, Jr.

President Nixon’s visit to Peking starts one more surprising turn in an American-Chinese “affair” nearly two centuries old

Paul Morphy, Chess Prodigy

Author: Charles L. Cutler

Could he have beaten Bobby Fischer?