April 1969

The future French king asked Washington for directions and got an arduous tour of a new nation’s wilderness

The Union Pacific met the Central Pacific at Promontory—and the nation had truly been railroaded

John Solomon Rarey was possibly the greatest horse tamer the world has ever seen; his incredible feats made him the toast of Victoria, Napoleon III, and the Czar

The period between Mexican independence and the constitution of 1917 was turbulent and painful

In the bright mestizo tapestry of Mexico’s thirty centuries of civilization, the Indian, the Spanish, and the modern threads interweave—and tangle

After the Revolution, Washington returned to farming at Mount Vernon but eventually called for that he wished a “Convention of the People” to establish a “Federal Constitution”

Eisenhower dreamed of serving under Patton, but history reversed their roles. Their stormy association dramatically shaped the Allied assault on the Third Reich.