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  1. The Levys of Monticello

    By Annabelle Prager, February/March 1978, Volume 29, Issue 2

    Visitors to Monticello today, taking in its handsome lawns and flower beds, its beautifully finished and furnished rooms, its immaculate floors and woodwork, have no trouble picturing Thomas Jefferson More >>>

  2. Over Here

    By Anonymous (not verified), July/August 1989, Volume 40, Issue 5

    Throughout 1989 the bicentennial of France’s Revolution is being observed in the United States with hundreds of exhibitions, performances, and symposiums. Among the events that will continue into More >>>

  3. A Lion In The Street

    By John A. Garraty, June 1957, Volume 8, Issue 4

    How J. P. Morgan, like a “one-man Federal Reserve,” calmed the bankers and helped ease the Panic of 1907 More >>>

  4. The Scent Of History

    By Anonymous (not verified), February/March 1982, Volume 33, Issue 2

    Some time ago, I was given a bottle of after-shave lotion that was in production during the American Revolution and was sold to the officers of both sides. I failed to note the manufacturer’s nam More >>>

  5. “Never Leave Me, Never Leave Me”

    By Louis Auchincloss, February 1970, Volume 21, Issue 2

    When Aileen Tone went to live in Henry Adams’ house on Lafayette Square, directly across from the White House, as the historian’s “secretary-companion and adopted niece,” she was thirty-four More >>>

  6. A Bicentennial Monument ToOur Fumbling Foes Of ’76

    By Frederick Bern…, April 1975, Volume 26, Issue 3

    Although the bicentennial of American independence is just over a year away, it is the unhappy fact that the United States has not yet expressed the slightest appreciation to those who did the most to More >>>

  7. Sinclair Lewis Got It Exactly Right

    By Alfred Kazin, October/november 1985, Volume 36, Issue 6

    He re-created with perfect pitch every tone of voice, every creak and rattle of an America that was disintegrating even as it gave birth to the country we inhabit today More >>>

  8. “They Were Always In My Attic”

    By Thomas Mallon, February/March 2007, Volume 58, Issue 1

    The Smithsonian gets a remarkable new archive More >>>

  9. Hunting Buffalo

    By Lawrence Block, April 1990, Volume 41, Issue 3

    A novelist turned compulsive traveler tracks a peculiar quarry all across America More >>>

  10. Old Town Hall

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    This Federal-style structure housed the city's meeting chambers, offices and jail and served as the headquarters and gathering place of civic organizations and included a subscription library. The dea More >>>

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