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The President and the Lunatic
, , , Issue 1After assassinating President Garfield, a lunatic gunman mounted an insanity defense, which the jury--and the nation--rejected despite compelling evidence to the contrary More >>>
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Painter of the Revolution
, , , Issue 4The canvases of John Trumbull, sometime soldier, reluctant artist, have given us our visual image of the colonies’ struggle to be free More >>>
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Johnny Appleseed
, , , Issue 1The quietly compelling legend of America’s gentlest pioneer More >>>
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The Central Park
, , , Issue 3In the dead center of the long, rectangular island of Manhattan—New York to most people—sits a long rectangle of parkland known appropriately enough as Central Park. On a quiet Saturday morning in More >>>
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The Chief of State and the Chief
, , , Issue 6In the snarled disputes in 1790 over the Yazoo land claims (now large parts of Alabama and Mississippi), George Washington and an educated Creek chieftain turned out to be the diplomatic kingpins More >>>
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Humiliation and Triumph
, , , Issue 5The year was 1814, and within three weeks our “young and not always wise” nation suffered acute shame and astonishing victory More >>>