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What Samuel Wrought
, , , Issue 3To 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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To Plan A Trip
, , , Issue 3Ricketts Hall, just inside the gate, is where most visitors start their tour of the Academy. Here they can see an enlightening video about the midshipmen’s four-year experience, study a diorama of More >>>
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The Dark World Of David Gilmour Blythe
, , , Issue 6In an age when art radiated nothing hut light and optimism, this self-taught painter from Pittsburgh saw another, more somber side of American life More >>>
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The Struggles of Edwin Stanton
, , , Issue 5Working closely with President Lincoln, Secretary of War Stanton was indefatigable in laboring to win the Civil War. But his abruptness could sometimes be counterproductive. More >>>
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Thomas Jefferson Takes A Vacation
, , , Issue 4ON IT HE GAVE THE NEW nation a new industry, wrote a protoguide to New England inns and taverns, (probably) did some secret politicking, discovered a town that lived up to his hopes for a democratic society, scrutinized everything from rattlesnakes to rum manufacture—and, in the process, pretty much invented the summer vacation itself More >>>
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Why Benedict Arnold Did It
, , , Issue 6To the end of his life America’s most infamous traitor believed he was the hero of the Revolution More >>>
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Old Houses
, , , Issue 3by William Seale; Harry N. Abrams, Inc., in association with the National Trust for Historic Preservation; 1992; 240 pages; $45.00. Photography by Steve Gross and Susan Daley; text by Henry More >>>
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Lee’s Last Stand
, , , Issue 6The Union Army’s siege ended in 1865, but it still has a grip on Petersburg, Virginia More >>>
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Was Jefferson Davis Captured In A Dress?
, , , Issue 3A story that the Confederate president donned a petticoat to evade capture emerged right after Union cavalrymen apprehended him in Georgia at war’s end. But is it true? More >>>
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ASSASSINATION!
, , , Issue 3Had there been a Warren Commission exactly a century ago, when Abraham Lincoln was shot, its report might have read like the somber, moving, and impressively researched book from which the following narrative is taken. More >>>