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Among The Clouds
Author: John H. Ackerman
Tourists who ride the famous cog railway up the precipitous slopes of Mount Washington often feel the sky itself is their destination. Overcoming many obstacles—including a recent serious accident—the little locomotives with their tilted boilers have been huffing and puffing people to New England’s highest summit for nearly a century
A Woman’s Place
Author: Janet Stevenson
Fanny Kemble should have known that a beautiful, brilliant, vivacious British actress never, never marries the Butler—especially an American slaveholding Butler with a narrow vision of a wife’s role
Hugo Black and the K.K.K.
Author: Virginia Van Der Veer
President Roosevelt had failed to “pack” a hostile Supreme Court, and now the first New Dealer he named to that high bench stood accused of being a lifetime member of the infamous Ku Klux Klan
How To Salt A Gold Mine
Author: David Lavender
In the mining country of the Old West some men struck it rich without touching a shovel. All it took was a little legerdemain—and a sucker
bitten by the gold bug
Barnacle Ben, The Sailor
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Reading, Writing, And History
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The “Military Crimes” of Charles Lee
Author: Thomas Fleming
Hardly had the dust settled at Monmouth when a major general was court-martialled for misbehavior in action. And something else was at stake: George Washington’s prestige
Of Mugs & Men
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“Our Little War with the Heathen"
Author: Andrew C. Nahne, Albert Castel
Our first Korean war, in 1871, was fought to open the Hermit Kingdom to Western trade. But the hermits wanted very much to be left alone
About History: A Horse Of A Different Color
Author: E. M. Halliday