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An eminent scholar argues that its inscription is only a hoax.

Granddaddy of all desert mining discoveries was the Comstock Lode, which sent the Far West on a silver stampede to Nevada’s Washoe country a century ago.

“To push back the consciousness of American beginnings, beyond Jamestown, beyond the Pilgrims, to the highwater mark of the Elizabethan Age” -- Part One of a New Series.

A “primitive-moderne” spoofs American art and history.

Only Sir William Johnson, living among them in feudal splendor, won and kept the confidence of the Iroquois.

New York received the great composer like a god; he responded con brio to its shiny gadgets and beautiful women and produced an “American” opera.

At Brook Farm a handful of gentle Bostonians launched a noble but short-lived experiment in communal living.

Curiosity motivated the first American who crossed Siberia. But he also made a handsome profit.

Baseball’s rules and rituals are much as they were fifty years ago and anything to win still goes.