<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> While Bryan stumped up and down the land, McKinley let the voters come to his lawn in Canton—and they came</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> “It is needless,” wrote his publisher, “to say anything of the writer of ‘Maple Leaf,’ ‘Cascades,’ ‘Sunflower’ or ‘Entertainer.’ You know him.” But this black genius died penniless and all but forgotten</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> What the public wanted, it seemed, was a vice and bootleg business netting sixty million dollars a year-and many gangland funerals</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck"> was the first magazine in America to change its cover for every issue. And these covers may still be the best graphic art magazine has ever produced.</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck">It was born in America, it came of age in America, and, in an era when foreign competition threatens so many of our industries, it still sweetens our balance of trade.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> While New York families were spending fortunes inherited from fathers and grandfathers, the Chicago rich had to start from scratch, both making and lavishly spending money within one generation</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck">Every presidential election is exciting when it happens. Then, the passing of time usually makes the outcome seem less than crucial. But, after more than a century and a quarter, the election of 1860 retains its terrible urgency.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">What seemed to be just another tempest in the teapot of academia has escalated into a matter of national values and politics. Who would have believed that the choice of which books Stanford University students must read would create so much tumult? And that the controversy goes back so far?</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">Robert Johnson died in obscurity in 1938. Since then, he has gradually gained recognition as a genius of American music. Only recently have the facts of his short, tragic life become known.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">At the dawn of this century, a new form of residential architecture rose from the American heartland, ruled by the total integration of space, site, and structure.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">Every spring, 30,000,000 Americans watch the Indianapolis 500. It’s the nation’s premier racing event and the pinnacle of a glamorous, murderous epic that stretches back nearly a century.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">First heard just a century ago at the Chicago fair, Frederick Jackson Turner’s epochal essay on the Western frontier expressed a conflict in the American psyche that still tears at us.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">THE 1893 WORLD’S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION WAS SO WONDERFUL THAT EVERYBODY HOPED IT WAS A PROPHECY OF WHAT THE TWENTIETH CENTURY HELD IN STORE. BUT IN FACT, THE CITY THAT MOUNTED IT WAS.</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">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">What happened when a historian largely indifferent to the subject set out to write the script for Ken Burns’s monumental new documentary</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">This isn’t the first time a Virginia governor has found himself embroiled in controversy about the commercialization of a Civil War site.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">The most powerful columnist who ever lived single-handedly made our current culture of celebrity, and then was destroyed by the tools he had used to build it.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">You’ve probably never heard of them, but these ten people changed your life. Each of them is a big reason why your world today is so different from anyone’s world in 1954.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">During a single decade, Chicago invented modern organized crime and saw John Dillinger, the most famous of the hit-and-run freelancers, die in front of one of its movie houses. For those who know where to look, quiet streets and sad buildings still tell the story of an incandescent era.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">A BOLD NEW KIND OF COLLEGE COURSE BRINGS the student directly to the past, non-stop, overnight, in squalor and glory, for weeks on end.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">The story of Chicago in the 19th century is the story of the making of America, the historian Donald L. Miller explains. A new PBS documentary based on a book he wrote shows why.</span></p>
