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The old frontier began to die as the “medicine line” of the 49th Parallel was drawn Read >>

When The Wild Northern Boundary Stretched To The Sea, A Government Artist Recorded The Rugged Surveying Job | June 1957

Woodrow Wilson Wouldn’t Yield | June 1957

While Paris cheered “Voovro” the isolationist crowds back home cried "Impeach him!” and in a clash of imperious wills his dream evaporated Read >>

Great Days Of The Overland Stage | June 1957

Opening the mail route to California, the Butterfield coaches flew across the rugged, wild Southwest in twenty-five exhausting days Read >>

A Lion In The Street | June 1957

How J. P. Morgan, like a “one-man Federal Reserve,” calmed the bankers and helped ease the Panic of 1907 Read >>

Lost Elegance | June 1957

Home to royal and republican governors, host to a century of great men, stately Shirley Place in Roxbury, Massachusetts, is falling into ruin Read >>

Lord of the Law | June 1957

The fathers of American independence founded their case on “that wonderful Edward Coke … masterful, masterless man,” who made two English kings bow to the common law Read >>

Tears And Laughter | June 1957

A Portfolio of Sentimentals and Comics by Currier & Ives Read >>

Abby, Julia, And The Cows | June 1957

In two dead-game spinsters who wouldn’t be unfairly taxed, the men of Glastonbury met their match and the cause of feminism found a bovine cause célèbre Read >>

The Defeat, The Lesson, The Victory | June 1957

By studying Braddock’ mistakes, Henry Bouquet outsmarted the Indians who tried the same tricks on him a few years later Read >>

Cornflake Crusade | June 1957

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Cornflake Crusade | June 1957

A history of the food reformers and cereal kings who made Battle Creek the center of a revolution in Americans eating habits Read >>

The Breakfast Foods From Battle Creek As Seen By The Nation’s Cartoonists | June 1957

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Reading, Writing And History | June 1957

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Primer From A Green World | August 1957

From his native background, William McGuffey drew texts to educate young Americans Read >>

The Clothes Lincoln Wore | August 1957

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The Perils Of The Waltz | August 1957

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Philip Hone’s New York | August 1957

The magic of life in the, unfolding metropolis still breathes in the diary of a charming and witty mayor Read >>

History And How To Write It | August 1957

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Eminent Historians | August 1957

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A Few Men In Soldier Suits | August 1957

A down-to-earth story of the way in which the German thrust at the Bulge was halted Read >>

The Philosopher’s Wife And The Wolf At The Door | August 1957

“Mr. Alcott,” wrote his patient, loving wife, “cannot bring himself to work for gain; but we have not yet learned to live without money.” And in earning it herself Mrs. Bronson Alcott helped invent modern social work Read >>

Soldier’s Return | August 1957

Sandy’s homecoming to Vermont didn’t work out quite the way they planned Read >>

Victory at New Orleans | August 1957

Andrew Jackson won a stunning victory over a veteran British army that would eventually propel him to the White House Read >>

When Cotton Mather Fought The Smallpox | August 1957

In Boston, where one in six was dying of the plague, the great preacher battled for a new and radical idea. Read >>

New England Summer | August 1957

Before painting his famous seascapes, Winslow Hosier recorded a golden time which has almost passed from the American scene Read >>

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