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Maryland Their Maryland

Author: William E. Wilson

For over a century the colony was the feudal property of the Lords Baltimore. It turned out to be a fee of troubles.

What Price Concrete?

Author: Bradford Mitchell

The King Of Ranchers

Author: Bernard Taper

He never packed a gun or led a posse or burned down a homesteader's hut, but in his time Henry Miller owned more land than anyone else in the West.

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Faces From The Past-XXI

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Maria Mitchell studied the stars, and taught her students to reach for them.

The Trial Of John Brown

Author: Thomas Fleming

Verdicts Of History: III -- Even his abolitionist friends thought his attack on Harpers Ferry insane, but the old Kansas raider sensed that his death would ignite the nation’s conscience.

Off to the Klondike!

Author: Murray Morgan

How a bunch of the boys—and some of the girls, too—slogged up to the gold diggings in the Yukon; and how Hegg the photographer joined in the scramble, leaving a record of one of the most rugged adventures of modern times.

He Wanted To Murder The Bugler

Author: Bruce Catton

Fifty years ago America went into World War I—singing. Irving Berlin, who put some of the songs upon our lips, recalls for American Heritage those gallant and somehow marvelously innocent days.

Around The World With Swash And Buckle

Author: Robert Waldron

Newspaperman, novelist, playwright, adventurer, Richard Harding Davis was a legend in his own lifetime.

Wrecker, Spare That Frieze!

Author: Robert S. Gallagher

As featureless new buildings replace the old, the faces of our cities are going blank. But evocative relics of an earlier, ornate age are being rescued, to stand once more in a unique garden in Brooklyn.