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The shady courtyards, tiled roofs, and white stucco walls of 1920s Palm Beach owed something to the style of the Spanish Renaissance and everything to the vision of Addison Mizner Read >>
Nearly a hundred years ago, two rival cities fought hard and dirty to win the battle of numbers. Read >>
He excelled at business and made Macy's highly profitable. But Nathan Straus was even better at giving away his earnings to help people in need. Read >>
The disputed election of "His Fraudulency" Rutherford B. Hayes ended the era of Reconstruction. Read >>
200 years ago, the United States was a weakling republic prostrate beneath a ruinous national debt. Then, Alexander Hamilton worked the miracle of fiscal imagination that made America a health,y young economic giant. How did he do it? Read >>
Fashion disposes, the camera exposes. Here’s what was new and exciting for half a century. It didn’t seem quaint then. Read >>

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