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THE STORY OF THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO IN THE 1950S HELPED CREATE THE SEXUAL LANDSCAPE WE INHABIT TODAY Read >>
The first caravans lumbered across 2000 miles of dangerous, inhospitable wilderness in 1843, the year of the Great Migration. To a surprising degree, it’s still possible to follow something very like their route. Read >>
They cost five cents more than regular comic books, and the extra nickel was supposed to buy what we now call cultural literacy. But they were controversial from the very start. Read >>
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson stood together in America’s perilous dawn, but politics soon drove them apart. Then, in their last years, the two old enemies began a remarkable correspondence that is both testimony to the power of friendship and an eloquent summary of the dialogue that went on within the Revolutionary generation and that continues within our own. Read >>
THE GREAT MAN ON HIS CONTEMPORARIES: HAMILTON THE “BASTARD BRAT,” PAINE THE “PIGG,” JEFFERSON THE CLERK, WASHINGTON THE CIPHER Read >>
Schermerhorn, the Rain King Read >>
A Journey Down the Atlantic Shore Read >>
Songs of Stephen Foster Read >>

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