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The key to control of Canada was a city whose defenders doubted they could hold out for long once the American Rebels attacked Read >>
On a new bridge that arched the flood Their toes by April freezes curled, There the embattled committee stood, Beset, it seemed, by half the world. Read >>
CUMBERLAND ISLAND AND HOW MODERN TIMES AT LAST HAVE REACHED IT Read >>
SECOND OF FOUR INSTALLMENTS A FAMOUS HISTORIAN RECALLS THE COUNTRY WHERE HE GREW UP Read >>
Its venerable Museum of Fine Arts revives an era of forgotten beauty in a very proper Bohemia Read >>
The black laborers on John Williams’ plantation never seemed to leave or complain. It took some digging to find out why Read >>
In the hands of a rococo Yankee named Clyde Fitch, the American stage came of age with a gasp of scandalized shock Read >>
Captain Semmes was spoiling for a fight—and Winslow of the U.S.S. Kearsarge was waiting for him, just off Cherbourg Read >>
When British dragoons captured this brilliant and ambitious general, it put an end to his ambition to replace Washington as commander-in-chief. Read >>
What started as fun and games at spring roundups is now a multi-million-dollar sport called rodeo Read >>
We have come a long way from the philosophy of the Enlightenment...a shift that represents a retreat rather than an advance, argues the noted historian. Read >>
AMERICAN DESIGN II THEY COMBINED BEAUTY AND UTILITY IN ORDINARY OBJECTS Read >>

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