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From Richmond to Appomattox Court House, roads unchanged for 140 years tell the story of the final days and the final hours of the Confederacy.

“One nation is a copy of the other,” said John Adams on his first visit to the Netherlands; two centuries later, an American visitor to Holland can still trace the connection.

Small, handsome, and often beleaguered, this surprisingly cosmopolitan Maine city has had a history of clawing its way back from oblivion, and today, it’s on an upswing again.

A faded industrial town in upstate New York is home to one of the world’s greatest concert halls.

A walk with my great-grandfather through the last foreign country in New York City