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If you want to visit the relic itself, you must go to San Antonio. But to get the feel of what it was like for Crockett and Travis and the rest, you should drive west into the Texas prairie.

The ambassador from an infant republic spent five enchanted years in the French capital at a time when monarchy was giving way to revolution. Walking the city streets today, you can still feel the extravagant spirit of the city and the era he knew.

Elaborate earthworks engineered two thousand years ago by an impenetrably mysterious people still stand in astonishing abundance throughout the Ohio River Valley

FDR’s Splendid Deception

Prodigal Soldiers How the Generation of Officers Born of Vietnam Revolutionized the American Style of War

Terrible Honesty Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s

Emerson The Mind on Fire

The R&B Box 30 Years of Rhythm and Blues

An American City Through Time

Over My Dead Body The Sensational Age of the American Paperback: 1945–1955