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By private wire from Oyster Bay Roosevelt angled for the 1916 Progressive and Republican nominations, but his strategy backfired and killed the Progressive party

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

An English observer says our party workings, patronage, sheriffs., and grand juries are museum pieces from Britain’s past

At Sumter Edmund Ruffin unwittingly pushed toward ruin the region whose agricultural economy he had revived

The daring epic of the filibusters reached a lurid climax when little William Walker captured the sovereign state of Nicaragua

The repulse of Pickett’s charge, described in a little-known account written shortly after the battle by a Union officer