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The Children of Gettysburg

Author: Elizabeth Daniels

The storm broke over their small town and changed their lives forever.

The Other Fair

Author: Richard Reinhardt

New Yorkers recall 1939 as the year of the great World’s Fair in Flushing Meadow. But that’s just more Eastern provincialism. Take a look at what was going on in San Francisco.

The Problem of Money and Time

Author: John Steele Gordon

Why do you need so much money to be rich nowadays? It’s a question that historians and readers of history have always found difficult to answer.

Behind the Federal Facade

Author: Alexander O. Boulton

An architecture for a new nation found its inspiration in ancient Rome.

The Quiz-Show Scandal

Author: Walter Karp

Stempel’s winning technique was simplicity itself: He got all the questions in advance.