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Geronimo!
, , , Issue 4It took five thousand American troopers a year and a half to run down the great Apache raider and his lethal band. They did it by tough persistence and skill—or was it guile? More >>>
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Lincoln’s Lost Love Letters
, , , Issue 2A cache of letters, discovered in 1928 and published in the Atlantic Monthly, proved that Abraham Lincoln had really loved Ann Rutledge. Or did they? More >>>
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Democratic Debacle
, , , Issue 3The Republican party ensured a landslide defeat when it nominated Barry Goldwater in 1964, but the Democrats did far more lasting damage to themselves at their convention that year. In fact, they still haven’t recovered. More >>>
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Sherman—modern Warrior
, , , Issue 5More than any other Civil War general, says a distinguished British critic, he grasped the possibilities and requirements of warfare in the modern age More >>>
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Buffalo
, , , Issue 6Piskiou,Vaches Sauvages, Buffler, Prairie Beeves— More >>>
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Yankee Gunners at Louisbourg
, , , Issue 2Gallant exploits against long odds helped the American militia capture the famous French citadel. More >>>
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Mad Old Man From Massachusetts
, , , Issue 3How gnarled, upright ex-President John Quincy Adams broke the South’s gag rule in Congress and at last won popular applause More >>>
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Miss Eleanor Roosevelt
, , , Issue 6“She is such a funny child, so old-fashioned, that we always call her ‘Granny’ “her mother said. Cousin Franklin felt otherwise More >>>
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The Lives Of The Parties
, , , Issue 5The two-party system, undreamt of by the founders of the Republic, has been one of its basic shaping forces ever since their time More >>>
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Cornflake Crusade
, , , Issue 4A history of the food reformers and cereal kings who made Battle Creek the center of a revolution in Americans eating habits More >>>