A FRENCH VISIT TO CIVIL WAR AMERICA Selections from the letters of Lieutenant Colonel Camille Ferri Pisani, who accompanied Prince Napoleon on his state visit, touring the fronts, both North and South, visiting the West and meeting Lincoln and the men around him during the Union’s darkest days More >>>
An interview with the famed suffragette, Alice Paul More >>>
General Washington wanted Benedict Arnold taken alive, right in the heart of British-held New York. More >>>
Refugees from the French Revolution, many of them of noble birth, built a unique community in the backwoods of Pennsylvania—and hoped their queen would join them More >>>
“Come immediately … Nothing like it in a lifetime!” an exalted customer telegrapheds wife after hearing the opening number of the National Peace Jubilee in 1869 More >>>
As Adams and Jefferson died, America came of age More >>>
From Fort Ticonderoga to the Plaza Hotel, from Appomattox Courthouse to Bugsy Siegel’s weird rose garden in Las Vegas, the present-day scene is enriched by knowledge of the American past More >>>
Suspected but not convicted, this General went to prison More >>>
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. More >>>
It came over with the Mayflower and stayed on to be the unchallenged drink of democracy. More >>>