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  1. The Levys of Monticello

    By Annabelle Prager, February/March 1978, Volume 29, Issue 2

    Visitors to Monticello today, taking in its handsome lawns and flower beds, its beautifully finished and furnished rooms, its immaculate floors and woodwork, have no trouble picturing Thomas Jefferson More >>>

  2. Over Here

    By Anonymous (not verified), July/August 1989, Volume 40, Issue 5

    Throughout 1989 the bicentennial of France’s Revolution is being observed in the United States with hundreds of exhibitions, performances, and symposiums. Among the events that will continue into More >>>

  3. A Lion In The Street

    By John A. Garraty, June 1957, Volume 8, Issue 4

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

  4. The Scent Of History

    By Anonymous (not verified), February/March 1982, Volume 33, Issue 2

    Some time ago, I was given a bottle of after-shave lotion that was in production during the American Revolution and was sold to the officers of both sides. I failed to note the manufacturer’s nam More >>>

  5. “Never Leave Me, Never Leave Me”

    By Louis Auchincloss, February 1970, Volume 21, Issue 2

    When Aileen Tone went to live in Henry Adams’ house on Lafayette Square, directly across from the White House, as the historian’s “secretary-companion and adopted niece,” she was thirty-four More >>>

  6. A Bicentennial Monument ToOur Fumbling Foes Of ’76

    By Frederick Bern…, April 1975, Volume 26, Issue 3

    Although the bicentennial of American independence is just over a year away, it is the unhappy fact that the United States has not yet expressed the slightest appreciation to those who did the most to More >>>

  7. Sinclair Lewis Got It Exactly Right

    By Alfred Kazin, October/november 1985, Volume 36, Issue 6

    He re-created with perfect pitch every tone of voice, every creak and rattle of an America that was disintegrating even as it gave birth to the country we inhabit today More >>>

  8. “They Were Always In My Attic”

    By Thomas Mallon, February/March 2007, Volume 58, Issue 1

    The Smithsonian gets a remarkable new archive More >>>

  9. Hunting Buffalo

    By Lawrence Block, April 1990, Volume 41, Issue 3

    A novelist turned compulsive traveler tracks a peculiar quarry all across America More >>>

  10. Powel House

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    Built in 1765 by merchant and businessman Charles Stedman, this elegant Georgian brick mansion was purchased by Samuel Powel in 1769 at the time of his marriage to Elizabeth Willing. Mayor Powel and h More >>>

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