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How A Madman Helped Save The Colonies

Author: James Thomas Flexner

Fort Stanwix was doomed—until the Iroquois heard the ravings of Hon Yost Schuyler

The Famous Cyclorama Of The Great Battle Of Atlanta

Author: Bruce Catton

There have been few more desperate fights than the one in which John B. Hood vainly tried to block the invasion of the South

Benjamin Franklin’s Grand Design

Author: Richard B. Morris

The Albany Plan of Union might have made the Revolution unnecessary

If Tortugas Let You Pass

Author: Hamilton Basso

How Cape Hatteras earned its evil notoriety as graveyard
of the Atlantic—and how it looked to a speculative novelist on tour

Dime Novels

Author: Mary Noel

This art form dismayed the moralist, delighted small boys, and somehow put its own stamp on the American legend

Light For Lincoln’s Statute

Author: Margaret French Cresson

A noble portrait was grotesque, until the shadows were changed

The Great Diamond Fraud

Author: Harry H. Crosby

Two slick miners fooled Tiffanys and Rothschilds until a geologist found the fake “mountain of gems”

How A Great Historian Studied A Great American

Author: Allan Nevins

Published here for the first time, Douglas Southall Freeman’s letters to the Carnegie Corporation telling of his research on Washington show

First "Dude Ranch" Trip to the Untamed West

Author: Alvin M. Josephy Jr.

Never again can there be a hunting party as gay or as risky as the one Sir William Stewart devised in 1843