<p><span class="deck">Yellow fever killed 4,000 in Philadelphia in 1793, and puzzled doctors ignored the real clue to blame “miasmata” in the air.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> From wilderness to foremost city of the colonies, and then to cosmopolitan capital of the Republic—this was Philadelphia’s first century</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Refugees from the French Revolution, many of them of noble birth, built a unique community in the backwoods of Pennsylvania—and hoped their queen would join them</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Banking as we’ve known it for centuries is dead, and we don’t really know the consequences of what is taking its place. A historical overview.</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck">The framers of the Constitution were proud of what they had done but might be astonished that their words still carry so much weight. A distinguished scholar tells us how the great charter has survived and flourished.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> James Wilson was an important but now obscure draftsman of the Constitution. Carry Wills is a journalist and historian fascinated by what went on in the minds of our founders. The two men meet in an imaginary dialogue across the centuries.</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck"> After a summer of debate, three of the delegates in Philadelphia could not bring themselves to put their names to the document they had worked so hard to create</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck">Every one of the founders was a historian who believed that only history could protect us from tyranny and coercion. In their reactions to the long, bloody pageant of the English past, we can see the framers’ intentions.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">It was discovered in New Jersey in 1858, was made into full-size copies that were sent as far away as Edinburgh, and had a violent run-in with Boss Tweed in 1871. Now, after 50 years out of view, the ugly brute can be seen in Philadelphia.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">The little town of Lebanon, Connecticut played a larger role in the Revolution than Williamsburg, Virginia did. And it’s all still there.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">The man who may be America’s greatest artist liked to fend off the curious with the statement “My life is all in my works. ” He was right, but the works and the life take on new poignance with the release and exhibition of a once-private collection of his letters, photographs, and sketchbooks.</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck">John Adams and Thomas Jefferson stood together in America’s perilous dawn, but politics soon drove them apart. Then, in their last years, the two old enemies began a remarkable correspondence that is both testimony to the power of friendship and an eloquent summary of the dialogue that went on within the Revolutionary generation and that continues within our own.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">Once seen as a vice and now as a public panacea, the national passion that got Thomas Jefferson in trouble has been expanding for two centuries.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">The American newspaper: beleaguered by television, hated both for its timidity and its arrogance, biased, provincial, overweening, and still indispensable. A Hearst veteran tells how it got to where it is today, and where it may be headed.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck"><lead_in>DURING THIS TRIP, HE GAVE THE NEW</lead_in> nation a new industry, wrote a proto-guide to New England inns and taverns, (probably) did some secret politicking, discovered a town that lived up to his hopes for a democratic society, scrutinized everything from rattlesnakes to rum manufacture, and, in the process, pretty much invented the summer vacation itself.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck"><lead_in> DECEPTIVELY SIMPLE IN NAME AND FORM,</lead_in> an icon of post-modernism comes wrapped in centuries of architectural history </span></p>
<p><span class="deck">The<em> Declaration of Independence</em> is not what Thomas Jefferson thought it was when he wrote it, and that's why we celebrate it.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">Without major compromises by all involved, and the agreement to avoid the contentious issue of slavery, the framers would never have written and ratified the Constitution.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">At five critical junctures in American history, major political compromises have proved that little of lasting consequence can occur if the entrenched sides don't make serious concessions.</span></p>
