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The prevailing Colonial feeling toward female education was unanimously negative. Learning to read was the first feminist triumph. Read >>
Third in a series of paintings for AMERICAN HERITAGE BY DON TROIANI Read >>
WHAT POLIOMYELITIS MEANT TO A POLITICAL CAREER Read >>
Credited with shouting “Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes!” at Bunker Hill, he was perhaps the most experienced general in the American army. But “Old Put” was not without his faults. Read >>
A visit to New York when it was little, not very old, and rather more attractive Read >>
Once upon a time a shy but persistent candymaker named Hershey dreamed of building his own utopia … Read >>
The great American Realist painter Thomas Hart Benton reflects on his life, his work, his colleagues, and much more. Read >>
A careless America has lost or ignored most of its priceless collection of patent models. Sometimes exquisite,sometimes little more than toys, those that remain display in the inventors’ own handiwork the history of our technology Read >>
The city panicked with fear of the Mafia when the police chief was murdered Read >>
"Billy" Durant typified the courage of American business. He was charismatic, arbitrary and impenetrable. Read >>
Why study the Classics, anyway? Read >>
An English artist recaptures on canvas the American ships that once ruled the seas Read >>
Pioneer farmers had neither wood nor brick to build with, but there sure was plenty of good earth Read >>
Harriet Beecher Stowe, an extraordinary member of an extraordinary family, always claimed that God wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin Read >>

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