Reading, Writing And History

April 2024

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The Civil War: the Truth and the Legend Floating Palaces Too Many Indians Camp Meeting Days

Stories published from "August 1955"

New light on the tragic case of a President’s widow who saw her own son as a hated enemy

Authored by: The Editors

Newspaper ads from occupied New York illumine Revolutionary War loyalties

Authored by: Louis Morton

Military science was very rigid in the 1600’s. It quickly changed when Americans began to fight Indians

Calling millions to repentance, Moody and Sankey devised a new method of spreading the gospel

Authored by: The Editors

Never before printed, the headquarters record of the British conqueror of New York illuminates crucial events of the American Revolution.

Some men see the beginnings. The conquistador who first saw the Mississippi also took the Inca highway to fabulous Cuzco.

Not until the Civil War was about over did the U.S. Navy manage to put a halt to the South’s imports

The imagined liberty of Rousseau’s primitive individual was actually attained by the free trappers who helped America gain a continent

Stalwart as he was, the general was often ill. A doctor studies his record and notes shortcomings in Eighteenth-Century medical care.

Distant lands supplied patriotic tableware to the new Republic