Although Battle Creek, Michigan is known as America’s cereal capital, this abolitionist/women’s rights leader lived there for 27 years, died there, and is buried there.
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Destinations: Raymond Chandler’s L.A.
The blonde was tall and wore stiletto heals that could pin your chest to […]
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American History Book Review: Fallen Founder
Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr By Nancy Isenberg; Viking, 518 pages, $29.95 […]
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American History Book Review: Blooding at Great Meadows
Blooding at Great Meadows: Young George Washington and the Battle that Shaped the Man […]
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American History Book Review: The Forgotten Man
The Forgotten Man By Amity Shlaes; Harper Collins, 433 pages, $26.95 Tearing down icons […]
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The 20th Century’s Greatest Athlete
While Jim Thorpe triumphed in the world of sports—from football to baseball to track—his […]
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‘This Once Great and Lovely City’
John Lloyd Stephens, Jacksonian Democrat, travel writer and would-be ambassador to Central America, proved […]
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50 Years On the Road
Jack Kerouac’s Beat classic—published one month before the launch of Sputnik—enthralled a generation that […]
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Sputnik 1957
The Cold War got hot when the Soviets successfully launched the first satellite into […]
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Q&A With Edward J. Larson
What issues divided the Federalists and the Republicans in 1800? The biggest one was […]