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Yankee Gunners at Louisbourg | February 1955
Gallant exploits against long odds helped the American militia capture the famous French citadel. Read >>
How New York Greeted King Ludwig’s Girl Friend | February 1955
A curious example of the way the metropolis could lose its head over a visiting celebrity before the day of modern press-agentry Read >>
A Nosegay Of Valentines | February 1955
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Aide To Four Presidents | February 1955
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Reading, Writing And History | February 1955
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“New Skies And New Stars” | February 1955
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Fantastic Tragedy | February 1955
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The Story Of The Piano | February 1955
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News Of History | April 1955
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Seeing And Hearing History | April 1955
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Are There Too Many New Deal Diaries? | April 1955
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Big Guns For Washington | April 1955
How tough Henry Knox hauled a train of cannon over wintry trails to help drive the British away from Boston Read >>
Was America Discovered Before Columbus? | April 1955
This nautical chart, lost for five centuries, gives evidence that Portuguese captains had found the New World by 1424 Read >>
The Way To The Big Sea Water | April 1955
A century ago the Soo canal was an insignificant ditch in a remote northern wilderness. Today it serves as the busiest industrial highway on earth. Read >>
The Letter That Bought An Empire | April 1955
Written in haste, on an April midnight in 1803, the unedited text of the message that led to the Louisiana Purchase is printed for the first time. Read >>
Sidewheeler For Shelburne | April 1955
A determined collector brings a steamboat to her museum of Americana—by rail. Read >>
General Lee’s Unsolved Problem | April 1955
A southern writer analyzes the handicaps unwittingly laid on the general by President Davis Read >>
Eli Whitney: Nemesis Of The South | April 1955
Having given slavery a new lease on life, he then made Northern triumph inevitable Read >>
The Peales | April 1955
‘The ingenious Captain Peale” sired a dynasty of painters and started America’s first great museum. Read >>
Genealogy Of Peales | April 1955
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The Great Love in the Life of Emily Dickinson | April 1955
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The Last War Cruise Of Old Ironsides | April 1955
From her chaplain’s diary comes this graphic story of the final sea battle of America’s famous frigate Read >>
“To Open The Door” | April 1955
A famous educator reviews 100 years of service by the land-grant colleges Read >>
The Man Who Gave Away Rockefeller’s Millions | April 1955
THE MEMOIRS OF FREDERICK T. GATES Read >>
Frederick T. Gates And John D. Rockefeller | April 1955
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The Memoirs Of Frederick T. Gates | April 1955
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A Postscript By Allan Nevins | April 1955
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The Greatest Balloon Voyage Ever Made | June 1955
So John Wise characterized his cross-country flight in 1859. All in all, the label is fairly accurate even now Read >>
Seeing And Hearing History | June 1955
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Western Americana | June 1955
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