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Artfully composed still-life photographs from a rare 1871 album transform brushes, sponges, and stationery supplies into symbols of a proud, industrial society

Two letters from a Navy lieutenant to his wife tell the story of the last hours of World War II.

In a conflict that saw saturation-bombing, Auschwitz, and the atom bomb, poison gas was never used in the field. What prevented it?

He had all the right qualities. Only the time was wrong.

Starting with 30 “liberated” rifles, Augusto Sandino forced American troops out of Nicaragua in 1933.

Much has changed in Utah since World War II, but, outside of the metropolitan center in the Salt Lake Valley, the addiction to rural simplicity and the idea of home is still strong.

It might seem that building a mausoleum to the great general would be a serenely melancholy task. Not at all. The bitter squabbles that surrounded the memorial set city against country and became a mirror of the forces that were straining turn-of-the-century America.

400 years ago, the first English settlers reached America. What followed was a string of disasters ending with the complete disappearance of a colony.

The men and women who labored in the ghostly light of the great screen to make the music that accompanied silent movies were as much a part of the show as Lillian Gish or Douglas Fairbanks.