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  1. Gadsby's Tavern

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    A historic tavern and museum dating from the years following the American Revolution and frequented by presidents and patriots.Enjoy a meal where George Washington used to drink and dine. Before headi More >>>

  2. Gov. Jonathan Trumbull House

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    Governor Jonathan Trumbull's house is unusual in having the only central chimney with a central hall in the state of Connecticut. It was extensively remodeled by the Governor when he inherited it from More >>>

  3. Old Town Hall

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    This Federal-style structure housed the city's meeting chambers, offices and jail and served as the headquarters and gathering place of civic organizations and included a subscription library. The dea More >>>

  4. Documents Of Freedom

    By Howard H. Peckham, June 1965, Volume 16, Issue 4

    The Revolutionary War is familiar to most of us. Even before the guns were stilled, historians began writing about it. As time passed, popular poets committed its heroic episodes to verse, painters More >>>

  5. Tricky Cal

    By The Readers, October 1997, Volume 48, Issue 6

    In my early twenties I worked for a photographic studio in Washington, D.C. My job was to retouch photographs of important federal employees, including the President. I usually spent my lunch hour More >>>

  6. Wilton House Museum

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    Visitors can experience 18th century life at Wilton, Richmond's own Georgian plantation manor house. Moved and restored by The National Society of The Colonial Dames of America in the Commonwealth of More >>>

  7. Child Of Both Worlds

    By Byron Dobell, February/March 1987, Volume 38, Issue 2

    Child of two worlds. More >>>

  8. A Princely Service

    By AndreÉ Maurois, April 1966, Volume 17, Issue 3

    Among those who came to the aid of the Union when the Civil War broke out was François Ferdinand Philippe Louis Marie, Prince de Joinville, the third son of the exiled King of France, Louis Philip More >>>

  9. Countdown In Tennessee, 1920

    By Carol Lynn Yellin, December 1978, Volume 30, Issue 1

    The hour-by-hour suspenseful story of the climactic struggle for equal voting rights for women More >>>

  10. “Yesterday, December 7, 1941…”

    By Richard M. Ketchum, November 1989, Volume 40, Issue 7

    The bombs that fell that Sunday didn’t just knock out some battleships; they roused America into a new age. Here is how the long, unforgettable day unfolded. More >>>

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