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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.