Few memoirs in recent years have drawn more attention, or stirred up more of a controversy, than the book Three Years with Grant , written by Civil War newsman Sylvanus Cadwallader and edited by Benjamin P. Thomas. Read >>

The Printer Was A Devil | August 1956

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It Was Fun Soldier | August 1956

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The Training Of Woodrow Wilson | August 1956

His career at Princeton prepared him for a larger role, but also showed his strange blend of strength and weakness Read >>

The Prince Of Swindlers | August 1956

Janus Addison Reavis got rich—for a time, anyway—on his Peralta land fraud. But in the end he went to jail . Read >>

They All Were Born In Log Cabins | August 1956

Aspirants for the White House begin humbly and rise fast in the typical campaign biography Read >>

How They Killed The Buffalo | August 1956

In the mid-Ninteenth Century, enormous herds roamed the western plains. In a few years only scattered remnants of these survived. Read >>

The Needless Conflict | August 1956

If Buchanan had met the Kansas problem firmly we might have avoided civil war The fourth in a series on TIMES OF TRIAL IN AMERICAN STATECRAFT Read >>

Kate Was Too Ambitious | August 1956

Salmon P. Chase’s beautiful daughter stopped at nothing, eevenn at marrying a rich scoundrel, in her zeal to make her father President Read >>

Brashers Birds | August 1956

A portfolio of paintings of American birds from the brush of a great Connecticut artist and naturalist Read >>

Fire Makes Wind: Wind Makes Fire | August 1956

On the same day that Chicago burned, the Wisconsin woods went up in flames. Peshtigo’s fire missed the headlines hut killed five times as many people. Read >>

Who Put The Borax In Dr. Wiley’s Butter? | August 1956

False cures and adulterated foodstuffs were flooding the market when a chemist and his “poison squad” pushed through the first Pure Food and Drugs Law Read >>

Empires In The Northwest | August 1956

Excerpts from Land of Giants Read >>

Hats On For General Washington | August 1956

Resigning his commission, the military hero joined Congress in acting out a strict protocol to symbolize the supremacy of civil government Read >>

Error By Mrs. Stowe | October 1956

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And The Middle West | October 1956

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The Grand Army Of The Republic | October 1956

APRIL 6, 1866–AUGUST 2, 1956 Read >>

Best Prepared Pioneers In The West | October 1956

Ably led by Brigham Young, the Mormons made an orderly march to Utah and created ‘Zion” with smooth efficiency Read >>