<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">A leading American historian challenges the long-entrenched interpretation originated by the late Charles A. Beard</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> Maria Monk’s lurid “disclosures” and Samuel Morse’s dire warnings launched a crusade of bigotry that almost won the White House</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck">Time is taking its toll of the romantic covered bridge, where once you could exchange gossip, argue politics, or court your lady fair.</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The simple, affectionate water colors of an unassuming Scots immigrant, David J. Kennedy, bring back the Philadelphia of 1876 and our first great world’s fair</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> They were botanists, but not of the dull variety: William’s journals inflamed the imaginations of the European romantics, and John may have inadvertently touched off the American Revolution</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">Vain, snobbish, distinctly upper-class in his libertine social habits, Gouverneur Morris nevertheless saw himself justifiably as "A Representative of America"</span></span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Gargantuan, gross, and cynical, the patrician boss Boies Penrose descended from aristocracy to dominate Pennsylvania Republican politics for thirty years</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> How the Philadelphia waterworks became a potent symbol of our lost belief that nature and technology could live together in harmony</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> Although it has been disparaged as “General Washington’s Sewing Circle,” this venture was the first nationwide female organization in America</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Saluting a departing general, the British dazzled Philadelphians with the grandest party the city had ever seen; the tiny army that had toppled the general bided its time nearby</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> Did the fifty-five statesmen meeting in Philadelphia at the Constitutional Convention know that a witch-hunt was taking place while they deliberated? Did they care?</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck">Slovenly, impulsive, impoverished, and grotesque, Constantine Samuel Rafinesque was the greatest naturalist of his age. But nobody knew it.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> Artfully composed still-life photographs from a rare 1871 album transform brushes, sponges, and stationery supplies into symbols of a proud, industrial society</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck"> The penitentiary was invented in the United States as a more rational and humane way of punishing. It quickly ran into problems that still overwhelm us.</span> </p>
