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  1. The Trumpet Sounds Again

    By James Thomas Flexner, April 1969, Volume 20, Issue 3

    After the Revolution, Washington returned to farming at Mount Vernon but eventually called for that he wished a “Convention of the People” to establish a “Federal Constitution” More >>>

  2. The House At Hyde Park

    By Geoffrey C. Ward, April 1987, Volume 38, Issue 3

    A biographer who knows it well tours Franklin Roosevelt’s home on the Hudson and finds it was not so much the President’s castle as it was his formidable mother’s. More >>>

  3. Thomas Jefferson’s Unknown Grandchildren

    By Fawn M. Brodie, October 1976, Volume 27, Issue 6

    A STUDY IN HISTORICAL SILENCES More >>>

  4. A Nation of Immigrants 

    By Edwin S. Grosvenor, Summer 2024, Volume 69, Issue 4

    No war, no national crisis, has left a greater impress on the American psyche than the successive waves of new arrivals that quite literally built the country. More >>>

  5. The Making Of An American Lion

    By Timothy Severin, February 1974, Volume 25, Issue 2

    A Welsh waif adopted a new country and a new name and then became—thanks to a New York newspaper—the most famous African explorer of his time More >>>

  6. The Wayward Commodore

    By Richard O’Connor, June 1974, Volume 25, Issue 4

    Outrageous and irreverent, publisher James Gordon Bennett shocked and delighted nearly everyone More >>>

  7. Jimmy Doolittle: “I Am Not A Very Timid Type …”

    By Robert S. Gallagher, April 1974, Volume 25, Issue 3

    The famed aviator recalls the dramatic bombing raid he led on Tokyo early in World War II. More >>>

  8. The Most Unpopular Man In The North”

    By Louis W. Koenig, February 1964, Volume 15, Issue 2

    Peace without victory was the crusade of Clement L. Vallandigham, the volatile extremist spokesman of the antiwar “Copperheads.” Too often his deeds had a suspicious odor of treason More >>>

  9. Memo To: Oliver Wendell Holmes From: The Friends Of Old Ironsides Subject: Help!

    By C. Bradford Mitchell, February 1970, Volume 21, Issue 2

    It was a bright day for the Republic, that afternoon of May 15, 1815, when the U.S.S. Constitution victoriously dropped anchor oil the Battery at New York. Of all the gala homecomings that Castle Cli More >>>

  10. A Nation of Immigrants

    By Bernard A. Wei…, February/March 1994, Volume 45, Issue 1

    It’s a politician’s bromide—and it also happens to be a profound truth. No war, no national crisis, has left a greater impress on the American psyche than the successive waves of new arrivals that quite literally built the country. Now that arguments against immigration are rising again, it is well to remember that every single one of them has been heard before. More >>>

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