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Comparing Notes With Lewis And Clark

Author: Leslie Allen

A present-day adventurer canoes the Upper Missouri to find that time and fortune have erased signs of its later history, restoring the wilderness the Corps of Discovery penetrated nearly 200 years ago

Reinventing A River

Author: Rosanne Haggerty

Its waters drove our first Industrial Revolution—and were poisoned by it. Thoreau believed the Merrimack might not run pure again for thousands of years, but today it is a welcoming pathway through a hundred-mile-long red-brick museum of America’s rise to power.

Empire Of The Winds

Author: Scott Banks

In the Aleutian Islands you can explore a landscape of violent beauty, discover the traces of an all-but-forgotten war, and (just possibly) catch a $100,000 fish

Watching ‘the Outlaw’

Author: Thomas A. Fitzgerald Jr.

Free Passes to a Movie Milestone

Where Berlin And America Meet

Author: Fredric Smoler

Our common history isn’t all pleasant, but seeing it firsthand is deeply moving