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A Union seaman’s nightmarish memories of shot, shell, and shoal waters in Grant’s Mississippi River campaign, 1862–63

An exclusive preserve of New York’s social elite —its rise, its flourishing years, and its slide into genteel decline

How a Crash Program Developed an Efficient Oral Contraceptive in Less Than a Decade

The Garden Club of America-once the diversion of leisured ladies—is now a vigorous environmental league

A new book presents uncommon portraits of our past from the photographic archives of the Library of Congress

The Colonial Status—Past and Present—of the Great American West