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Common Sense

Author: Bernard Bailyn

The Most Uncommon Pamphlet of the Revolution

The Income Tax And How It Grew

Author: Gerald Carson

and grew, and grew, and grew

A Sweep Of Bridges

Author: David Flowden

“De railroad bridges’s A sad song in de air…”

Churchill Talks To America

Author: Kenneth McArdle

FOR SEVEN DECADES OUR EBULLIENT COUSIN INSTRUCTED US ON EVERYTHING: THE BOERS, PROHIBITION, HITLER, CHARLIE CHAPLIN’S FEET, AND THE COMMON CAUSE OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES

The Carpetbagger

Author: Bernard A. Weisberger

A TALE OF RECONSTRUCTION
Of the turbulent career of Pinckney B. S. Pinchback, adventurer, operator, and first black governor of Louisiana. He reminds one powerfully, says the author, of the late Adam Clay ton Powell, Jr.

Mary Cassatt

Author: David Lowe

“I do not admit that a woman can draw like that,” said Degas when he saw one of her pictures

“What Good Is a New-born Baby?”

Author: Joan Paterson Kerr

OF BALLOONS, THE FIRST AIR-MAIL LETTERS, AND THE EVER-ENTERPRISING FRANKLIN FAMILY

Men of the Revolution: 11. George Rogers Clark

Author: Richard M. Ketchum

Clark’s career was like the passage of a meteor—a quick, fiery moment that lit up the heavens for all to see and wonder at, then vanishing in oblivion.