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No matter how busy he was, Theodore Roosevelt always found time for his children. The charming “picture” letters below, addressed to his thirteen-year-old son Archie from a Louisiana hunting camp, recall a man who for millions of Americans will always live on, forever vigorous, forever young.

Nathaniel was poor and sunk in his solitude; Sophia seemed a hopeless invalid, but a late-flower love gave them at last“a perfect Eden”

Over 350 years a mighty pageant of history has moved through the myth-haunted valley of the “Great River of the Mountains”

Discreet helpers have worked on the speeches and papers of many Presidents, but a nation in a time of trial will respond best “to the Great Man himself, standing alone”

Long after the Civil War was over, the Shenandoah’s die-hard skipper was still sinking Yankee ships

Snowshed crews on the Central Pacific, battling blizzards and snowslides, built “the longest house in the world”

A leading American historian challenges the long-entrenched interpretation originated by the late Charles A. Beard