The Fairey Swordfish biplane torpedo bomber was one of the most unusual yet effective […]
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The Donner Party’s Failure Shows ‘the Sheer Arrogance of Manifest Destiny’
Author Michael Wallis backtracks the notorious emigrant party that succumbed to cannibalism in the Sierra Nevada.
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Sid Richardson Museum
Remington, Russell and other Western masters draw visitors to this museum on Fort Worth’s Sundance Square
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Daily Quiz for March 22, 2018
Containing 23 fruit flavors, this beverage was created in 1885 at Morrison’s Old Corner Drug store in Waco, Texas.
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Book Review: Written in America’s Soul
With Malice Toward None: The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition Library of Congress Washington, D.C., […]
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American History Book Review: King Mob and Cagey Lion
Waking Giant: America in the Age of Jackson David S. Reynolds, Harper, 466 pp., […]
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American History Book Review: Cleburne
Cleburne Story and pencils by Justin Murphy, inks by Al Milgrom, colors by J. […]
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American History Book Review: A Mercy
A Mercy Toni Morrison, Alfred A. Knopf, 167 pp., $23.95 To the collective American […]
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American History Book Review: Banquet at Delmonico’s
Banquet at Delmonico’s: Great Minds, the Gilded Age, and the Triumph of Evolution in […]
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Going Nuclear in Idaho Falls
America’s only fatal reactor accident was the culmination of a costly battle between the […]