Mary Stockwell profiles Anthony Wayne, the general whose military action against Indians made the state of Ohio possible
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How Hooch Lubricated American Life
Besides making crops portable, cocktails like slings, flips, punches, and bounce were healthier than water
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ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: How Americans Made English a Bodacious New Language
Settlers created fresh, colorful words and phrases to describe their land and life
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‘Board Her Boys!’: The 1804 Burning of USS Philadelphia
Unable to wrest USS Philadelphia from the clutches of piratical Tripolitans, Stephen Decatur resolved to burn the captured frigate to the waterline
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Mrs. Benedict Arnold
Since the earliest days of the Republic, Benedict Arnold has been the American phrase for […]
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ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: America’s First Financial Crisis
A single rich investor’s ruin led the infant United States economy into a terrible tizzy
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‘They Gave Me the Last Rites’
Seriously wounded Army infantryman Doug Greenlaw now leads the Purple Heart organization, dedicated to all who spilled blood for their country.
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Book Review: Young Washington
There’s a side to George Washington few Americans know, and Peter Stark reveals it
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Bob Drury and Tom Clavin: Forging Washington’s Army
The best-selling authors examine the Continental Army’s 1777–78 transformation at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania
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The Father of West Point
In the long history of the U.S. Army, can we point to one man […]