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After a century and a half of misadventure, the Constellation (if she is still the Constellation ) returns home Read >>

Personal friendships were important when T.R. was President. Ultimately, they had great effect on America’s foreign policies. Read >>

Fort Stanwix was doomed—until the Iroquois heard the ravings of Hon Yost Schuyler Read >>

There have been few more desperate fights than the one in which John B. Hood vainly tried to block the invasion of the South Read >>

The Albany Plan of Union might have made the Revolution unnecessary Read >>

How Cape Hatteras earned its evil notoriety as graveyard of the Atlantic—and how it looked to a speculative novelist on tour Read >>

This art form dismayed the moralist, delighted small boys, and somehow put its own stamp on the American legend Read >>

A noble portrait was grotesque, until the shadows were changed Read >>

Two slick miners fooled Tiffanys and Rothschilds until a geologist found the fake “mountain of gems” Read >>

Published here for the first time, Douglas Southall Freeman’s letters to the Carnegie Corporation telling of his research on Washington show Read >>

“Washington, and probably Washington alone, kept the Revolution alive.” Read >>

Never again can there be a hunting party as gay or as risky as the one Sir William Stewart devised in 1843 Read >>

A glimpse at the ancient lore of cattle brands Read >>