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"The Sparck of Rebellion"

Badly disguised as Indians, a rowdy group of patriotic vandals kicked a revolution into motion

Benedict Arnold: How the Traitor Was Unmasked

"Whom can we trust now?" cried out General Washington when he discovered his friend's "villainous perfidy."

Patriots or Terrorists?

The Lost Story of Revolutionary War POW's

Robert Morris and the "Art Magick"

Skillful money-juggling by America’s first financier aided the new nation but led Morris himself to utter ruin

Franklin Charms Paris

The 70-year-old statesman lived the high life in Paris and pulled off a diplomatic miracle

Our Last King

Cursed by ancestry, beset by forces he could not grasp, George III is usually remembered as the ogre of Jefferson's Declaration. An eminent English historian reassesses that strange and pathetic personality

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