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A Legend in Her Time

The prevailing Colonial feeling toward female education was unanimously negative. Learning to read was the first feminist triumph.

Third in a series of paintings for AMERICAN HERITAGE BY DON TROIANI

WHAT POLIOMYELITIS MEANT TO A POLITICAL CAREER

Credited with shouting “Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes!” at Bunker Hill, he was perhaps the most experienced general in the American army. But “Old Put” was not without his faults.

A visit to New York when it was little, not very old, and rather more attractive

Once upon a time a shy but persistent candymaker named Hershey dreamed of building his own utopia …

A careless America has lost or ignored most of its priceless collection of patent models. Sometimes exquisite,sometimes little more than toys, those that remain display in the inventors’ own handiwork the history of our technology