What made Hernando de Soto think he could conquer thousands of Indians with just […]
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Lincoln’s Feisty Foil: Thaddeus Stevens
Thaddeus Stevens fought even harder for black equality than the Great Emancipator. THE NEW […]
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Supremely Gothic: Roseland Cottage
Roseland Cottage is a palace of illusion built by a pious influence peddler who […]
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President in Crisis: Deliverance
When Teddy Roosevelt’s mother and wife died on the same day, he dropped his […]
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Interview: Michael Lind / economic historian
In his new book Land of Promise, Michael Lind examines how the American economy […]
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Hermann Göring Preens for Charles Lindbergh
Charles Lindbergh was a 25-year-old airmail pilot from Little Falls, Minn., an all-American boy […]
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The First: Chain Restaurant
Good food served fast. That was the promise Fred Harvey made to hungry travelers […]
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We’ve Been Here Before: The Petraeus Affair Harks Back to America’s Founding Sex Scandal
When General David Petraeus resigned as director of the CIA in November 2012, after […]
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Gazette- American History April 2013
Civil War Time Capsule Found in Fredericksburg FREDERICKSBURG, VA., hit the equivalent of a […]
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Geronimo’s ‘Bravest’ Wife Fled Mexican Captivity and Fought a Mountain Lion
Huera, also known as Tze-gu-juni, served as an interpreter, a mother figure to Apache women, and as a shaman.