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  1. The Relief Of Fort Pickens

    By James Cooley, February 1974, Volume 25, Issue 2

    WAR WAS DAYS AWAY, A UNION STRONGHOLD WAS THREATENED, AND THROUGH A FOG OF RUMOR, DOUBT, CONTRADICTORY ORDERS, AND OUTRIGHT LIES THE ARMY AND NAVY SET OUT TO HELP More >>>

  2. The Siege Of Quebec, 1775–1776

    By Michael Pearson, February 1972, Volume 23, Issue 2

    The key to control of Canada was a city whose defenders doubted they could hold out for long once the American Rebels attacked More >>>

  3. The Father of American Terrorism

    By Ken Chowder, February/March 2000, Volume 51, Issue 1

    Two hundred years after his birth, Americans still revere him as a martyr and loathe him as a fanatical murderer. What was he? More >>>

  4. Canada

    By Hugh Maclennan, December 1965, Volume 17, Issue 1

    For an American, there is an ironic clue to the history of our neighbor to the north; she became a nation because her people did not wish to be swallowed up by the United States Quant aux Canadiens français, ils ne voulaient pas seulement éviter être absorbés par les États-Unis; ils ne voulaient pas davantage être absorbés parleurs compatriotes “anglais” More >>>

  5. Ruffian

    By Gene Smith, September 1993, Volume 44, Issue 5

    There was a miraculous and all-conquering horse, a filly, not a colt, who in nine out of ten races broke or equaled speed records that had stood for years and decades, who in fire and presence and app More >>>

  6. Barataria

    By Frederick Turner, August/September 1980, Volume 31, Issue 5

    With astonishing tenacity, the people of the rich river-mouth region of the Mississippi have remained what and where they are through two and a half centuries More >>>

  7. Three Years with Grant

    By Benjamin P. Thomas, October 1955, Volume 6, Issue 6

    The memoirs of Civil War correspondent SYLVANUS CADWALLADER were recently discovered and edited by Lincoln biographer Benjamin Thomas More >>>

  8. The Booth Obsession

    By Gene Smith, September 1992, Volume 43, Issue 5

    The author joins the thousands who feel compelled to trace the flight of Lincoln’s assassin More >>>

  9. Consequences Of The Skirmish At Lewis Farm, March 29, 1865

    By Alfred W. Crosby, July/August 1998, Volume 49, Issue 4

    A shot fired in the last days of the Civil War has kept its power to wound More >>>

  10. “To A Distant And Perilous Service”

    By Richard Reinhardt, June/July 1979, Volume 30, Issue 4

    Westward with the course of empire Colonel Jonathan Drake Stevenson took his way in 1846. With him went the denizens of New York’s Tammany wards, oyster cellars, and gin mills—the future leaders of California. More >>>

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