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  1. Cradle Of The Bed-and-breakfast

    By Anonymous (not verified), May 2001, Volume 52, Issue 3

    A RESORT SINCE LINCOLN’S DAY, CAPE MAY OFFERS EASY ENTRÉE INTO THAT ERA’S TASTEFUL HOUSES More >>>

  2. “Times That Try Men’s Souls”

    By Harlow Giles Unger, Spring 2022, Volume 67, Issue 2

    The words of Thomas Paine changed the course of history, and are still relevant as Ukrainians fight for the rights he articulated. More >>>

  3. Captor Of The Barefoot General

    By Leonard Falkner, August 1960, Volume 11, Issue 5

    In a bold plot, a young Rhode Island officer caught the British commander of Newport in his nightshirt More >>>

  4. Lincoln’s Second Inauguration

    By Philip Van Dor…, February 1958, Volume 9, Issue 2

    “The President came forward and the sun burst through the clouds.” More >>>

  5. Dickens In America: The Boz Ball

    By Ada Nisbet, December 1957, Volume 9, Issue 1

    TO WELCOME CHARLES DICKENS, NEW YORK STAGED ITS GREATEST PARTY—AND THEN SPOILED EVERYTHING BY TRYING TO REPEAT IT AT HALF-FRICE More >>>

  6. Three Forgotten Heroes

    By Richard C. Brown, August 1975, Volume 26, Issue 5

    Who today remembers John Paulding, Isaac Van Wert, or David Williams? Yet for a century they were renowned as the rustic militiamen who captured Major John André More >>>

  7. Revolutionary Village

    By Christopher Weeks, April 1989, Volume 40, Issue 3

    The little town of Lebanon, Connecticut, played a larger role in the Revolution than Williamsburg, Virginia, did. And it’s all still there. More >>>

  8. Last Survivors Of The Revolution

    By Rev. Elias Bre…, April 1958, Volume 9, Issue 3

    In the misty memories of six centenarians recorded in 1864, the great war lives again More >>>

  9. The Unsinkable Abigail

    By Elinor Richey, February 1975, Volume 26, Issue 2

    In forty years of scraping and scrapping for women’s rights, Abigail Scott Duniway never lost her nerve or wicked tongue More >>>

  10. What Samuel Wrought

    By Marshall B. Davidson, April 1961, Volume 12, Issue 3

    To him, said Morse, art had been only “a cruel jilt.” Then Providence found other work for this complex, difficult Yankee More >>>

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