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A National Monument To The Great Depression
Author: Ivan E. Prall
You probably haven’t seen it, but it’s out by the tracks of the Chicago & North Western
Windows On Another Time
Author: Oliver Jensen
A man who has spent his life helping transform old photos from agreeable curiosities into a vital historical tool explains their magical power to bring the past into the present
How History Made The Constitution
Author: Hiller B. Zobel
Every one of the Founding Fathers was a historian—a historian who believed that only history could protect us from tyranny and coercion. In their reactions to the long, bloody pageant of the English past, we can see mirrored the framers’ intent.
Eloquent Envelopes
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The Rattle-Snake As A Symbol Of America
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Only one man would have had the wit, the audacity, and the self-confidence to make the case
Where The Media Critics Went Wrong
Author: Walter Karp
The early critics of television predicted the new medium would make Americans passively obedient to the powers that be. But they badly underestimated us.
Forts Of The Americas
Author: Jack Rudolph
On their weathered stone battlements can
be read the whole history of the three-century
struggle for supremacy in the New World
The Greatest Diarist
Author: Daniel Aaron
George Templeton Strong was not a public man, and he is not widely known today. But for forty years he kept the best diary—in both historic and literary terms—ever written by an American.
Dusting Off America’s First Dinosaur
Author: Richard C. Ryder
It was discovered in New Jersey in 1858, was made into full-size copies sent as far away as Edinburgh, and had a violent run-in with Boss Tweed in 1871. Now, after fifty years out of view, the ugly brute can be seen in Philadelphia.