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Margaret Fuller very possibly spoke the truth, and the literary men of the age both admired and shied away from her Read >>

How Rails Saved a Seaport | February 1957

John W. Garrett turned the pioneer Baltimore & Ohio into a great instrument for tapping the treasure of the West Read >>

Early Memories Of The B&o | February 1957

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The Needless War With Spain | February 1957

"The current was too strong, the demagogues too numerous, the fall elections too near" Read >>

The Man Who Killed Custer | February 1957

To Stanley Vestal, the old Sioux warrior White Bull describes the day when he counted his greatest coup Read >>

The War In Cuba —a G.i. View | February 1957

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First In Toga, First In Sandals— | February 1957

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The Unlucky Collins Line | February 1957

An enterprising Yankee briefy ruled Atlantic sea lanes but a chain of disasters dogged his great steam packets Read >>

The Unknown Conspirator | February 1957

Did the mysterious Portuguese sea captain help plot Lincoln’s assassination, or was he an informer? Read >>

The Slave Ship Rebellion | February 1957

From the dark hold of the Amistad sprang a bold band who sailed her into history Read >>

Rebels And Redcoats | February 1957

Participants describe the opening of the American Revolution Read >>

H And Non-h | April 1957

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When Karl Marx Worked For Horace Greeley | April 1957

Greeley's respected Whig newspaper sustained the German immigrant in SoHo, publishing hundreds of essays and perhaps changing the course of history. Read >>

When Karl Marx Worked For Horace Greeley | April 1957

Greeley's respected Whig newspaper sustained the German immigrant in SoHo, publishing hundreds of essays and perhaps changing the course of history. Read >>

The Great Rail Wreck At Revere | April 1957

Single-track lines run by one-track minds gave the reformers of Boston their biggest cause since abolition Read >>

Hayfoot, Strawfoot! | April 1957

The Civil War soldier marched to his own individualist cadence, but he was much like today’s G. I. Read >>

“I've Got This Thing Simplified” | April 1957

A private interview with F.D.R. April 7, 1944 Read >>

La Salle On The Mississippi | April 1957

“An unconquerable mind in a frame of iron” Forgotten paintings by George Catlin, who saw the West unspoiled, turn up again to recall the marvels that unfolded before the eyes of the heroic French explorer Read >>

The Peaceable Ambassadors | April 1957

Two adroit diplomats successfully prevented an open breach between London and Washington during the Civil War Read >>

When The Headlines Said: Charlie Schwab Breaks The Bank | April 1957

The Monte Carlo capers of U. S. Steel’s new president outraged Andy Carnegie but never ruffled J. P. Morgan Read >>

Pennsylvania Sunday Best | April 1957

Itinerant primitive painters dressed up the farmers and the burghers as they hoped posterity would remember them Read >>

The Lowest Ebb | April 1957

Blamed for the misdeeds of others, President Grant left his name on America’s sorriest Administration Read >>

The Harrisons Of Berkeley Hundred | April 1957

Five successive Benjamin Harrisons created a private empire of tobacco and trade and a great Virginia plantation Read >>

La Salle And The Discovery Of The Great West | April 1957

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Reading, Writing And History | April 1957

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