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Lincoln Takes Charge

Author: Allan Nevins

His shrewd handling of the Radical Republican bid for power at the end of 1862 established him as the unquestioned leader of the Union

The Law To Make Free Enterprise Free

Author: Thurman Arnold

First among all nations the United States made “restraint of trade” a crime, and voted an economic ideal into law. One of its most energetic exponents looks back on that unique, vague, and unenforceable bit of legislation: the Sherman Antitrust Act

All The King’s Horses… And All The King’s Men

Author: Eric W. Barnes

They marched across a bridge at Salem —and then marched right back again

A Man to Match the Mountains

Author: Alvin M. Josephy Jr.

To David Thompson—who died blind, penniless, and bypassed by history—we owe our first knowledge of the American continent’s rugged Northwest

The Great White City

Author: Jessie Heckman Hirschl

More than any world’s fair before or since, the Chicago Columbian Exposition of 1893 had a lasting effect on its visitors, the taste of the times, and the lusty community that brought it forth

The Bloodiest Man In American History

Author: Albert Castel

On the flaming Kansas-Missouri border the name of Quantrill struck terror in men’s hearts. He was a cruel and ruthless guerrilla who burned, robbed, and killed without mercy; but legend made of him a hero dashing and bold

With Dana Before The Mast

Author: Samuel Shapiro

A long and arduous voyage around the Horn made a man of a sickly socialite and gave literature an enduring classic