<p><span class="deck"> Everyone from presidents to swindlers sailed the Sound on “Mammoth Palace Steamers” in the heyday of the sidewheelers</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck">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.”</span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle">Part hero, part rogue, Boston’s Jim Curley triumphed over the Brahmins in his heyday, but became in the end a figure of pity.</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> What was it like to actually be there in April, 1775?<br />
This is how the participants, American and British, remembered it </span></p>
<p><span class="deck">Warren took the lead in creating the Massachusetts Provincial Congress. Refusing to leave Boston like the other radical leaders, he died in the fighting on Breed's Hill in 1775</span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Its venerable Museum of Fine Arts revives an era of forgotten beauty in a very proper Bohemia</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> An album of pictures from the days when the Kennedys were parvenus and workingmen demonstrated in derbies</span> </span></p>
<p>When one of the wealthiest men in the Colonies sided with the Patriot cause, he was called a “wretched and plundered tool of the Boston rebels.”</p>
<p><span class="deck">When The Great Earthquake struck New England, learned men blamed everything from God’s wrath to an overabundance of lightning rods in Boston. Two hundred and twenty-five years later, geologists are at last discovering the true causes.</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">In the shadow of Bunker Hill, bigots perpetrated an atrocity that showed a shocked nation that the fires of the Reformation still burned in the New World</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> When it comes to genealogical pride, there’s nothing to equal the modest satisfaction of a slightly threadbare, socially impregnable New Englander. A canny guide to the subtle distinctions of America’s most rarefied society.</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> We built a merchant marine despite the opposition of the Royal Navy, went on to develop the most beautiful of all sailing ships, and held our supremacy for years. But how do we measure up today?</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Today more Americans live in them than in city and country combined. How did we get there?</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The U.S. Navy’s first submarine was scrapped half a century ago. But now we have been given a second chance to visit a boat nobody ever expected to see again.</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> How a favorite local charity of Boston’s Brahmins—parochial and elite—grew into one of our great democratic medical institutions</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck">It was a hundred years ago, and the game has changed a good deal since then. But there are plenty of people who still insist that cranky old Hoss Radbourn was the finest pitcher ever.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">This is the story of AT&T, from its origins in Bell’s first local call ,to last year’s divestiture. Hail and goodbye.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">His job was to destroy German submarines. To do it, they gave him 12 men, three machine guns, four depth charges, and an old wooden fishing schooner with an engine that literally drove mechanics mad.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">In a classic medical paper, Dr. Reginald Fitz identified the disease, named it, showed how to diagnose it, and prescribed an operation that would save tens of millions of lives.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">Oliver Wendell Holmes was wounded three times in some of the worst fighting of the Civil War. But, for him, the most terrible battles were the ones he had missed.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> From Fort Ticonderoga to the Plaza Hotel, from Appomattox Courthouse to Bugsy Siegel’s weird rose garden in Las Vegas, the present-day scene is enriched by knowledge of the American past</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck"> Born in response to the shoddy, machine-made goods available in the marketplace, the Arts and Crafts movement in America began in isolated workshops and spread to the public at large, preaching the virtues of the simple, the useful, and the handmade</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck"> Elizabeth, Mary, and Sophia Peabody managed to extend the boundaries that cramped the lives of nineteenth-century women. Elizabeth introduced the kindergarten movement to America, Mary developed a new philosophy of mothering that we now take for granted, and Sophia was liberated from invalidism by her passionate love for her husband.</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck">The author walks us through literary Boston at its zenith. But Boston being what it is, we also come across the Revolution, ward politics, and the great fire.</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">The great Czech composer arrived on these shores a century ago and wrote some of his most enduring masterpieces here. Perhaps more important, he understood better than any American of the day where our musical destiny lay.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">Americans invented the grand hotel in the 1830s, and, during the next century, brought it to a zenith of democratic luxury that makes a visit to the surviving examples the most agreeable of historic pilgrimages.</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">Is trial by jury the essential underpinning of our system of justice or, as more and more critics charge, a relic so flawed that it should perhaps even be abolished? An experienced trial judge examines the historical evidence in the case.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">The Thirteenth Amendment outlawed slavery in 1865, but right on into this century, sailors were routinely drugged, beaten, and kidnapped to man America’s mighty merchant marine.</span></p>
