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In some ways it’s better now than when square-riggers were rounding the Horn Read >>
It was a hundred years ago, and the game has changed a good deal since then. But there are plenty of people who still insist that cranky old Hoss Radbourn was the finest pitcher ever. Read >>
In a moment of import, there is always one guy totally oblivious to the fact that the world is shaking beneath his feet. Read >>
Walden is here, of course; but so too is Fanny Farmer’s first cookbook. Read >>
While a whole generation of artists sought inspiration in the wilderness, George Inness was painting the fields and farms of a man-made countryside. Read >>
One of the country’ more bizzarre labor disputes pitted a crowed of outraged newsboys against two powerful opponents: Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolf Hearst. Read >>
40 years ago, a tangle of chaotic events led to the death of Hitler, the surrender of the Nazis, and the end of World War II in Europe. Read >>
The 20s and 30s saw a host of new ways to separate customers from their money. Those methods have not been forgotten. Read >>
Magnificently impractical and obsolete almost as soon as they were built, the cable lines briefly dominated urban transportation throughout the country. Read >>

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