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After a varied career as a soldier, statesman, diplomat, and presidential adviser, Taylor wants to known as someone who “always did his damndest.” Read >>
Encamped above the Hudson for the last, hard winter of the Revolution, the officers of the Continental Army began to talk mutiny. It would be up to their harried commander to defend the most precious principle of the infant nation—the supremacy of civilian rule . Read >>
He could build castles at his whim, but the ancient home of a small band of monks defeated him Read >>
WHEN JOSEPH KNOWLES STRIPPED TO THE BUFF AND SLIPPED INTO THE MAINE WOODS IN 1913, HE HOPED TO LEAD THE NATION BACK TO NATURE. Read >>
An insider’s account of a startling— and still controversial—investigation of the Allied bombing of Germany Read >>
Few men—foreign or native born—have ever understood us better than this infinitely curious, inveterate Visitor from England Read >>
A Photographic Portfolio Read >>
AN INTERVIEW WITH DAVID McCULLOUGH Read >>
Three Hundred Years of Medicine in America: The Artists’ View Read >>
A century ago a President’s murderer went on trial for the first time in our history. The issues raised then continue to trouble us. Read >>
For TR, the nation s highest office was never a burden; he loved the job, and Americans loved him for loving it Read >>

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