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It was tough going, but the road over the Sierras could be used by men who understood how to travel

So John Wise characterized his cross-country flight in 1859. All in all, the label is fairly accurate even now

As Adams and Jefferson died, America came of age

Ne’er-do-wells and deserters, these soldiers lived hard, fought hard— and died when they saw a flag go up

Theodore Roosevelt, his widow recalled, watched Lincoln’s funeral from his grandfather’s house

The restlessness of Vermonters, says a native son, peopled many other states—but a solid core remains

How Baron von Steuben used a tough winter to make a solid army out of a collection of untrained volunteers

Some old myths die in this new study of his West Indies childhood